Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying," Van replied, with surprisingly little anger. "It's a pity he had to overintellectualize like that. He did such good work, and then he had to go and intellectualize it.
Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.
The figure of my father looms large in my imagination.
Popularity has become its own justification.
Everything he did was at least partial and often total bullshit” (402).
If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation.