Agreed! I ran across him years ago much by chance. Then I lost his name and his location in my records and in my mind. Just this morning it popped into my head, and I don't know why.
This guy is brilliant. If you read his his bio page, the brilliance is understandable.
I think in future years, he will be known as one of the greats.
In his bio, he wrote, "After two years at Hampden-Sydney, where I worked on a split major in chemistry and biology with an eye to oceanography, I decided I was bored. After spending the summer thumbing across the continent and down into Mexico, hopping freight trains up and down the eastern seaboard, and generally confusing myself with Jack Kerouac, I enlisted in the Marines, in the belief that it would be more interesting than stirring unpleasant glops in laboratories and pulling apart innocent frogs. It certainly was." He's an interesting guy.
He also wrote, " The years from 1970 to 1973 I spent in largely disreputable pursuits, a variety that has always come naturally to me."
I wonder what those "disreputable pursuits" were.
Fred sees things so clearly that I can't help but think that he was not unfamiliar with mushrooms and other interesting consumptions.