The fact is people watched him like he was a strange animal, and they preferred to enjail him into the unreal world rather than accept him as a member of them.
He adds humbly that perhaps he was “superior to the common run of men in noticing things which easily escape attention, and in observing them carefully. ”
That is also true of people who, like your columnist, a guest Bartleby, more often suffer from the inverse affliction-having trouble putting things off even if they probably ought to be.
So it is a bit confusing when vos Savant fields such queries from the average Joe (whose IQ is 100) as, What's the difference between love and fondness?
These are ordinary people making extraordinary differences in their communities and the corona virus pandemic is just another speed bump that they're getting over.