The situation was fluid. Which was to say, he’d been drinking a lot.

Beloved by millions—and a nasty piece of work.

Book II:
After the booze ran out.

Although he had longed for it, after retiring from teaching and moving to a house in the woods, he became severely depressed. The diagnosis: loss of horizon.

TEN REASONS WHY!
1) xxxxx
2) something else
3) # three of ten
4) etc.
5) death
6) something more upbeat
8

Sooner or later, one way or another, if you care about your work, your employers will make you wish you didn’t.

Others experienced his presence as an absence in themselves.

People described as “lighting up the room.” You are not one of those.

“Too ideacentric.”