Aydelotte replied, explaining that during Gödel’s convalescence in Austria he “had the idea that all the sanitarium food was poisoned and he would eat only things that were prepared and brought to him by a young woman friend of the family (whom he later married) and then only on condition that she eat with him from the same plate and with the same spoon,” and that his mother “was so frightened concerning his condition that she slept always in a locked room at night.”31 With this statement, Gödel’s Selective Service file comes to an end.
