That is the entire difference between the two men in this account and it took me about a year to be able to see it.

Julian solved things.

He solved them fast and he solved them impressively and every single solution created a debt, and the debts were never called in because they did not have to be — they simply sat there, adjusting the pressure in a room.

Arthur asked what I wanted to do.

About everything.

Constantly.

To the point of being irritating.

He came over on a Sunday in the September after the memorandum of decision, and Leo had him for an hour with a box of his grandfather’s baseball cards, and Nora sat against his arm while he read her something, and I stood in a kitchen doorway with a coffee pot and watched it.