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Gary Houston
August 23, 2023
I should have cited in my previous post a lingering image. He always knew me by name, in the classroom or on the street, and along with that he had a pretty accurate idea of my limitations, which is only to say he knew his students individually and one cannot claim the same for many professors on the graduate level. However, he could be absorbed, as writers and all thinkers do, in some tangent of thought, in his case, of course, in the world of analytic philosophy. So one day I was walking eastward on 57th St. and he was heading my way. He walked looking down at the sidewalk with great intensity in his eyes and a furrowed brow. I said, "Hello, Professor Linsky," but he walked past me. I was not offended. One of those absorbed tangents, I knew immediately. It was like an anecdote about Einstein on a campus walkway at Princeton, deep in thought and unable, unwilling too, to release himself from a place in a sequence of proof.
Gary Houston
September 2, 2022
He once pointed to me in class and asked, "Do you understand what I'm saying?"
"Not exactly," I said. And remembering a phrase once uttered by one of my undergraduate philosophy professors I added, "but I have a feeling for it."
"Oh, I see," he said, adding: "I hope it feels real good."
Margaret Schwartz
September 24, 2012
I hope his family will see this. Leonard Linsky was an amazing professor. I was in his Wittgenstein reading group as an undergrad. His dedication and passion still inspire me now that I'm a professor myself. He was a gift. May his memory be a blessing.
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