Thank you! it wasn't so much that he believed he had everything figured out, more that he was convinced that there was absolutely only one right answer for everything, whether anybody knew what that answer was or not. He believed in a world with hard edges, whether or not anybody could see where the edges were. While I could appreciate the crystalline beauty of the kind of system he was looking for, I knew that some things aren't quite so well-defined--even the coldest ice melts away eventually..