Another acquaintance was a very tall blond-haired man who could often be seen pushing around one of his first inventions—a wheelbarrow with a ball instead of a wheel. He and his lovely wife, Deirdre, and their delightful children were poor and very thin. She taught art and even sold some jewelry to help him build an improbable vacuum cleaner that no one wanted. He was, of course, James Dyson. You have to be completely obsessive to have a house in Provence…