Fascinating piece on Harold Doc Humes, a polymath, the founder of the Paris Review, who later in life became a roaming professor without portfolio dazzling college students with his brilliance up and down the East coast. He was also insane.
His daughter, whose project this is, relates how at the end of his life, when Doc was dying of cancer, he took prescription drugs which chased away his daemons and allowed him to have normal conversations instead of the hyper-fueled monologues which had been his trademark for thirty years.
Too bad. He really did have something to say. But no one heeds a raging madman.
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