Two hats, by adam ehrlich sachs
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The son of the late philosopher mystic. Perelman, who was writing a biography of his father, used to say at our weekly brown bag colloquium is that he wore two hats that of Perelman's son and that of his biographer. We assumed that this was just a figure of speech until a graduate student who rented an apartment across the street from him told us that he really wore to physical hats. The son of Perelman hat was a boston red sox cap, and the biographer of Perelman hat was a brown fedora where it circulated. And before long the chair of the department knocked on Perelman's son's office door. The chair urged him to take some time off please for his own sake. Bill Perelman son said with a knowing smile. Is this about the hats? The chair admitted that he was a little concerned. Bill, don't worry about me. I'm not going crazy, at least not yet. The hat serve a purely functional purpose. It looked silly he knew, but the hats helped him keep separate his two conflicting roles. First, as a son, still grieving for his father. Second as a scholar, trying to understand and to critique as dispassionately as possible. His father's ideas before hitting upon the two hats system. He lived in a state of perpetual self reproach when he thought of parole men in the way that a son thinks of a father. The scholar in him condemned his lack of objectivity, and when he thought of parole men in the way that a scholar thinks of his subject, the son in him condemned his lack of loyalty. The hats put an end to all of that.