They say he spoke three languages while still in swaddling clothes. * They say he never cried. * They say he could pull pixie dust from a stranger’s ear. * They say you had to watch what you said around him, because if he heard any shade of hypocrisy or prevarication, he could say three words that would strip you naked. * He was ruthlessly honest. * They say, even as a child, if you looked into his eyes, you could see no reflection and no bottom.