Irving Finkel

I think my dad recorded them off the radio on a reel-to-reel tape recorder, and I learned them all by heart because they were so fantastic.

But I knew a Harvard professor who, I stayed with once, who was a sumerologist, and his wife said that she knew Tom Lehrer when he was in the math department, and they used to have parties, and he always played the piano in the corner of the room.

He's just amazing, I think.

I think so.

But the paradoxical thing about Tom Leary is that when he's talking about the bomb and all that and devices and international trouble, it's so unchanged.

Yeah.

And same with Dr. Strangelove.

It's very remarkable.

Anyway, next time you're here or when you're here, you should come and see me in the museum and I'll show you some of these confounded things for yourself and show you the Chicago Dictionary and give you a grammar book to learn.

I'm very glad we met.

Me too.

It's been very interesting.

It's been a big pleasure for me, Lex.