tom seaver. so you have a great teacher. you learn the content and a way of being so if you study... if you were around, if you admire teddy roosevelt. there's a certain rooseveltian way of being. often you can't put that into words but it's dare greatly or. >> rose: physicality. >> rose: >> and if there's a woody allen... you want to be a funny or neurotic. so there's certain ways of being. i took a class... i didn't take it but i sat in on a class by a guy who became famous later, alan bloom from chicago. i would go periodically because he was such a great character and in the beginning of the term everyone looked like normal students. by the end may wear the same shoes, they smoke the same marlboroughs, he just had this affect and strong personality. >> rose: i've read one observation of your book who compared this to that. >> i didn't quite get that. alan bloom was a super high intellectual. i'm not quite sure i'm like that. but it is a book... >> rose: but i think they were talking about what he wrote. >> yeah, he didn'