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Interesting. I would say that kind of tracks, someone who only socializes on his own terms. He was a great fellow and an excellent teacher in my field (when not working at the med school/research lab, he taught modernist/postmodern literature, with some divinity school courses on Aquinas, as well as adult education teaching God knows what). I saw his Google Calendar once and there must have been maybe ten events for the week in it, one of which was our meeting.
These days an intellectual life outside of medicine has been mostly beaten out of the field, so anyone who does that sort of thing is usually exceptional in some way (often in peculiarity and surplus of intellectual horsepower.
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