Like the Romantic poets (like Byron's Childe Harold, which he would quote in reams, word-perfect, as he climbed), he believed that mountains were sublime.
Based on accounts from his close friends, it appears that he had some issues with reading, although never explicitly stated he may have suffered from dyslexia.
And the straightforward writing system (almost any word can be read aloud accurately by anyone who knows the rules) is the result of unusually early and sustained efforts to impose a logic on the language.
" Everything is always changing here, " announced my guide as we arrived at the riverbank, where holy men were seated under coloured umbrellas on the ground, chanting and smearing paste and ash on foreheads.
But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away.