member of the family recounted a few stories or read a poem. "His mind was never a captive of reality," Laurene said. "He possessed an epic sense of possibility. He looked at things from the standpoint of perfection." Mona Simpson, as befitting a novelist, had a finely crafted eulogy. "He was an intensely emotional man," she recalled. "Even ill, his taste, his discrimination, and his judgment held. He went through sixty-seven nurses before finding kindred spirits." She spoke of her brother's love of work and noted that "even in the last year, he embarked upon projects and elicited promises from his friends at Apple to finish them." She also, more personally, stressed his love of Laurene and all four of his children. Although"
( Walter Isaacson )
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