> Perhaps I should have recorded him the way indigenous people, in those tribes that have been decimated, will sometimes record the last of their older relative

> Perhaps I should have recorded him the way indigenous people, in those tribes that have been decimated, will sometimes record the last of their older relatives who speak a dying language. But it is all of a piece: His hunched shoulders, his dark eyebrows, the deep circles under his eyes, and his acerbic tone—a recording could not do it credit. Take a video.