He basically believed that not much had changed since Socrates, that pretty much all you had to know was right there. It was an unusual point of view. I mean, he has this sense about him that these were almost like revealed truths. You know, he had a strange quality to him. I don’t know, there was something about the implications of what he was talking about that disquieted me but I didn’t have the ability or the time or the interest to figure out: Why did he disquiet me? And why was I so surprised that fellow students would be so taken by him?