Memories of a Yale Roommate

Paul and I shared a double at Yale's Saybrook College in '70-'71, our Junior year (and the year I graduated from Yale.) He had not discovered the Nimatullahi Sufi order but displayed virtually all of the remarkable traits of character described in these eloquent tributes. I recall a memorable, even harrowing, ride on the back of a motorbike he had rented or borrowed and a hilarious road trip to Cape Cod, as well as visits to home town friends in Westchester County. We shared many tastes in literature and music, including Gurdjieff's Meetings with Remarkable Men. He introduced me to the music of Frank Sinatra - the classic '50s albums on the Capital label. His favorite, as I recall, was Only the Lonely. He did more for those around him, and far more unobtrusively, almost surreptitiously, than anyone else I knew there, certainly including me.