On 6 Oct 1969, I attended an address given by Isaac Asimov at Wagner College in Staten Island, and since I asked him a few questions during and after the session, I decided to write an article and submit it to the student newspaper...
When I was fourteen years old (1959) I used to hang around in the Village spending most of my nights explaining the origins of the Universe to a small crowd who would gather at the Cafe Wha? to hear me. I vaguely recall my lectures, basically rehashing theories I read in physics books and embellishing those with my imagination at the time. What I do remember quite clearly is that almost every week some listener would ask me if I had read "The Fountainhead."
Despite the fact that I did not agree with Mailer's anti-war views I invited him and Breslin to come speak at Wagner College in Staten Island.
Sadly the world focuses on the hollow-cheeked, shallow-brained, callow-anticked types like Paris Hilton who add nothing to the world's store of knowledge
