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An eccentric Dutchman, he was a wonderful teacher. He had a habit of punctuating his speech with 'shh'. When we looked impatiently at the electric clock on the wall, he waved an alarm clock in front of us, and in his loud, clear, tenor voice, shouted, 'tick. Shh. Tick. Listen. Tick tick. Each tick and you are a second closer to your grave. Shh'