It is an extraordinary book. I've read and re-read it. Just a chunk from the part you mentioned: "He finds it difficult to establish meaningful conversation

It is an extraordinary book. I've read and re-read it. Just a chunk from the part you mentioned: "He finds it difficult to establish meaningful conversation with that large portion of humanity that has never heard of a non-Riemannian hypersquare. This creates grave difficulties for him; there are two colleagues in his department who know something about non-Riemannian hypersquares, but one of them is on sabbatical, and the other is much more interested in non-Eulerian semirings."