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A: He was a zany genius. He wasn’t crazy, he had
his head on his shoulders. He knew what he was
doing. He was a jokester, a prankster. A little “til
eulenspiegel” but he loved to have fun. And that’s
a part of the basis of our friendship, because I’m
like that too. And we used to have a ball together: I
remember he used to talk in his theories about
putting on an audience. He was putting on people
all the time. I was a physicist. Physicists tended to
be a little more serious types. I never quite met
anyone like him.
Q: Did the rest of the academic community here at