Well Paul worked at being eccentric, though he did come by it naturally. His backyard swimming pool, christened "The whale's graveyard", was an Olympic sized pool of just one lane, so he could do his laps. He did put on a show in public, taking about driving into Little Rock to "tune up his ears" by "listening to the Little Rock Sympathy Orchestra" playing music by Tchaikovsky "who wrote pretty good music for an atheist", "then part of the orchestra goes out to catch a short beer", and such. Though while it was just me and him and 60 miles of driving, he was happy to inform and explain in minute detail the reason and logic to me of the correct way, from an engineering standpoint, what the most effective way to sit and steer the car was. Advice that I follow to this day. In restaurants he was always quick with a quip and not bashful about telling, at a goodly amount of decibels, the staff of Omaha's fanciest restuarant to "bring over a firehose" if they wouldn't keep his water glass full. If you read "The Klipsch papers" ( a compendium of his letters and articles ) he had a very thorough and detailed grasp on expressing the electrical analogues of mechanical devices to calculate needed mechanical changes - in this case loudspeakers, and he was brilliant, detailed, and inclusive. Most people don't know that he had more patents in airplane instrumentation, mining, and artillery than he had in sound equipment.
