But the relations soured in late 2002, when federal agents found a steak knife, nylon rope and a notebook full of extremist writings among his belongings in the safe house and accused him of plotting to kill his government minders.
It is taken from the preface to "Journals," published this week by Riverhead, a collection of pages from 27 notebooks and folders full of the personal writings of Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of Nirvana, who committed suicide in 1994.
Musa's magazine writings, full of veiled polemics against obliquely identified opponents, revolve around these problems.
By then he was living in Paris, thrilled to have escaped Brussels, had been in print for five years and was becoming known for idiosyncratic writings full of invented words, fantasy narratives and stream-of-consciousness musings.
His extensive writings, full of passionate belief in the public role of the landscape architect, are now considered important documents on the formative years of modern landscape architecture, with its emphasis on asymmetrical paved forms, native plantings and abstract sculptural elements.
In the same way we may obtain new insights into Aristotelianism: there are libraries full of commentaries on the writings of Aristotle gathered over the past two millennia, but it is doubtful that any of them commented on the significance of the absence of any concern with ritual matters in those writings.
For example, Loren Eiseley has found isolated passages written by Buffon suggesting he was almost ready to piece together a theory of natural selection, but such anticipations should not be taken out of the full context of the writings or of cultural values of the time which could make Darwinian ideas of evolution unthinkable.
His writings are full of anti-imperialist tirades and calls for neo-Incan dominance.
His writings are full of explorations of sexuality, sometimes verging on the pornographic.
But the more adroit Robertson's writings are full of insidious menace for Catholics and Jews.
