besides thinking that that was a peculiar way to say that i was too young to have met the woman in the photo , it was also not logical for a man so immured in logic , and it shrank me into an odd curiosity , an especially teeny person , dismissed me , i was also insulted by the lack of confidence he exhibited in me when only that lunch i had confessed to him how i had begun a sly , systematic effort to ditch my college classes , especially statistics , and he had shared in embarrassed blushes his own odd obsession with painting mysterious mexican haciendas .