I used to watch the Book of Mormon lectures they would show on KBYU on Sundays. It was amazing to watch Bro. Nibley lecture without notes, jumping from the Book of Mormon, to the Dead Sea Scrolls, to Isaiah, to the Epic of Gilgamesh, to Elizabethan poetry, all the while reciting lengthy passages from memory.
He bounced so quickly from one tangent to another, it was hard to keep up. Truly a phenomenal mind, even well into his 70s (which is when those lectures were taped, I believe).
just, dang. I don't know what to say to this. He was so profound.