'When I write I have trouble with my tenses. Where I was tomorrow is where I am today, where I would be yesterday. I have a horror of committing fraud. It is all very difficult, the past even more than the future, for the latter is at least probable, calculable, while the former is beyond the range of experiment. The past is always a lie clung to by an odour of ancestors.'
He comes up here once every few months and that is our routine is to head out and walk my dog for a few hours and just shoot the breeze.
For the record he is a brilliant math professor and has worked for NASA, IBM, as well as the NSA briefly. I have known him for 38 years.
While in WCW, he was arrested during a flight from Japan back to the US when he got drunk on the flight and urinated on a stewardess. By Matthews' account in his book, he claims that he was so drunk that he could not remember the incident and woke up in a cell in Anchorage, Alaska
"The movement of more and more African Americans to Chicago heightened racial tension at Riverview during that time period, as well. One of the midway games that started out as a 'Dunk the Bozo the Clown' game in which contestants threw balls at a target that would release a man into a tank of water turned into 'Dunk the Nig**r' during the 1940’s. African American men were hired to sit in the tanks and taunt white passersby, who often would throw the balls at the African American in the tank rather than at the target... By the time the game closed, 'the men who lost their jobs were reportedly making over three hundred dollars a week in what was considered to be the highest-grossing concession in Riverview’s history.'"
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