paul,colorful guy at the lab

years ago i worked in a modern lab though I'm retired now. like everywhere we had colorful people for co-workers. One i'll single out for now was paul, (his real name), hungarian-born escaped during the Hung. revolution, but still had a slight accent, evidently was quite at home w/ French, but apparently grew up speaking German and one guesses his Pa ran a successful print shop so when the German military showed up, Paul worked for them in cartography. They were in retreat then, so they apprently they didn' plan to do so w/o a fight. His job was to convert maps of the region into maps for used by the German artillery people, so range and distances were important for later. Pau was strong in graphics of course, a virtual wizard in photography, but also in the behavior of light, so he could make microscopes almost talk. he had previously worked in warm places, now the war was over and pursued a hobby of entomology. At one time he had lived in the Seychelle Islands before they were turist destinations, and had been funded by the Rockefeller Foundation to study a beetle pest of palms. He had published a paper on the problem, and subsequently had gone to wrork for the USDA in Tifton Ga. He was apparently not much for after-hours cavorting, so he had gathered Leps which had been trapped (light) and accumulated numerous cabbage butterflies, which he spread and pinned. He was very private and paranoid but was convinced 'the authorities' were on their way to arrest. So far as i am aware, he didn't own any guns, but kept a small carry-on nxt to the door so when 'THEY' came for him, he'd carry his personal effects w/ him. My wife didn't like me to visit him---- she feared he might lose it, & end my visits. We had him to dinner once & he brought a 16 mmcolor film he'd shot in Africa. hi qual. of course, a travelogue. Lst i saw of him, yrs ago, he'd had a small stroke--like dead by now. we ALL meet & know colorful people-- we simply must pay better atten.