From Tracing The Hapsburgs To Blogging

The tangled social webs we weave. In a widely read New Yorker piece a few weeks back by Tim Page about living with Asperger’s syndrome, the author mentions other people he suspected of having the same condition. One of them was encountered in the late 1970s, “a ragged, haunted man who spent urgent hours dodging the New York transit police to trace the dates and lineage of the Hapsburg nobility on the walls of the subway stations.”