He occasionally slept with women and would sometimes, wistfully and innocently, fall into discussions of sex with women who scarcely knew him.Yet those who imagined him deprived of love were wrong.
When I fall into discussions with woebegone investors in WorldCom and other infamous companies, I hear self-righteous condemnations of cooked books, manipulated earnings and analyst/company collusions.
But that assumption was challenged some years ago, when I fell into discussion with a middle-aged taxi driver in Beijing.
He loves Melville too, and they fall into a discussion of "Billy Budd".
He kept friends and neighbours not only impressed, but amused; you could meet him in the park and immediately fall into a discussion of the differences between hawkbit and dandelion.
I lasted in the heat as long as I could before drifting back to Joe in his air-conditioned cab, where we fell into a discussion about film.
On our way to a screening of "Shark Tale," my daughter and I fell into a discussion of "Finding Nemo," a movie she has seen several dozen times.
We poked around at the details of this political-military portrait for a while, and then we fell into a discussion about his previous work as a civilian, in between tours of active duty in the Navy.
It was Fellini, then a young screenwriter, and they immediately fell into a discussion of films, each expressing a desire to infuse poetry and lyricism into the political neo-realism then in vogue in Italian cinema.
One is similarly struck by the child-like regression with which Turing falls into animated discussion with his superior at Bletchley (played with deft, professorial daffiness by Raad Rawi) about his admiration for Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
