William Anthony Klementzos

Most people debrief about a movie with the rest of their party after they leave the theater. My Dad was no exception; however, he always talked about the characters as if they were real people about whom we had just watched a documentary.

"I can't believe that he didn't remember his mom doublecrossed him!."
"How could she have been so stupid: I would have never done that."

I always got a laugh thinking about these comments and questions and thought their natural answer was that these characters did this because they're fictional, written to have fatal flaws, and do these things simply to drive the movie plot forward. But, maybe my reaction is the unreasonable one: cynical, prosaic, and limiting.

The force of my Dad's attraction to the unconventional rivaled that of gravity. As a child with dyslexia in the mid 20th century, he perceived, interpreted, and analyzed the world in an idiosyncratic, intuitive way from the very start. I'll always remember his fixation on the subject of Quantum Mechanics, a branch of Science that explains phenomena that defy Classical Physics. He charted his life's course in a way that prioritized adventure, novel experiences, and thinking for oneself. He rejected conventional orthodoxies of how you should live and what you should believe.

While this approach didn't always facilitate the most direct route to various life milestones and achievements, it did enrich the experiences producing those hallmarks of life and heighten the quality of the kinds of things they yielded. He explored parts of the Earth undocumented, found himself in situations screenwriters dream up, and cultivated a loving family who respected and prized his ethos.

William (Bill, for short) Anthony Klementzos was born on August 30th, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois, and died on April 2nd, 2024 in Brooksville, Florida. HIs passions ranged from guitar strumming to fish wrangling to farm-steading. He left behind his wife and best friend, Sandra, son, Brandon, daughter, Jessica, and Grandson, Maxwell. He also left behind a perspective where movie characters can be real, where text is best read from right to left, and where particles can exist in multiple different places simultaneously ... Quantum Superimposition.