GG: Gould and the Western Society

[Scott Belyea <Scott.Belyea@erabanner.net>]

>Gould has often been portrayed as an excentric, sometimes even as alunatic. In my paper I want to show that this was not the case.

I think that you may be taking on a tough assignment here. On the one hand, I can't recall offhand reading any 
serious contention that Gould was a lunatic. On the other hand, the evidence seems to me to be overwhelming 
that he was indeed eccentric. Example - if you'll accept a brief and partial dictionary definition of 
"eccentric" as "deviating from usual practice, or established forms," then such obvious and undeniable 
characteristics as conducting much of his waking activity during nighttime hours and much of his social 
interaction via the telephone surely mark him as eccentric.