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No one took his ideas particularly seriously.

And he was ostracized and isolated, they thought he was mad in the Australian parlance, a

complete nutter.

You know there were people who called him a great American humorist within the profession.

He was intellectually alone, he had got this idea and no one was particularly interested

in it and by God he was going to do it on his own if it killed him.

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