Nucleo, you find the most interesting articles! Thank you again...

Great article. It struck me, again, how much work it is to maintain yourself when you're poor. All the time spent figuring out where to get the cheapest (or free) food, smokes, clothes, services... when do you have the time to improve your circumstances? Reading this account made me depressed on this man's behalf - is that how he had to spend the rest of his life, maintaining, figuring out how to pass the time, knowing he'll probably never be able to get back to where he used to be?

Very interesting article. Some weirdness going on in the middle and towards the end which interfered with readability, though; I wonder what's up with that? Or maybe it was just me?

Thanks stew, flex, altolinguistic!

No, it wasn't just you - it looked like they had some kind of formatting issue or something that mushed the words together in the wrong order for a paragraph or two.

Fantastic article. What a shame that such a powerful mind ends up in such a situation.

That was great (despite the formatting issues). What struck me is that in 1977 he was considered old at 59, and Earl at 55.