![]() ![]() Jerry was a magician, an inventor, a poet, a skeptic, a creator of original optical illusions, and in these multiple worlds in which he travelled, he was a living legend in all of them. Oh, did I mention that he was a musician? Jerry had, for one notable example, created a contraption in which he had connected an electronic keyboard to his home treadmill, so that he could exercise and play music at the same time. It was indeed his castle, filled to the brim with a lifetime of gathering and making interesting things. He lived most of his life in Albany, Oregon, and his adult life in a house that he called, and came to be infamously known amid his many friends, colleagues, and fans, as the Castle of Chaos. ![]() I certainly haven’t, and I’m quite confident I never will. I can confidently say you’ve never met anyone quite like him. He was as brilliant as he was eccentric-which is saying something-in fact, saying quite a lot. ![]() And fortunately, I knew him well, and for a very long time-more than 35 years by the time of his death in 2007 at the age of 89. Jerry Andrus was one of the most interesting people I’ve ever known. ![]()
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