“Before long it occurred to me to do what historians are professionally equipped to do. Live with a cluttered mental attic; run a spiritual antique shop; resist the impulse to throw anything away. Hang on after the avant-garde rejects. Save, shuffle, classify, enjoy the relics. Eventually shapes emerge. One learns to live with contradictions and paradoxes, but what is new about that in theology?”
Martin Marty in “Theology Today,” January 1972, p. 472.
Pathology: the Study of a Path 
Finally, someone who understands the historian’s mind!!!
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Well, Martin Marty is a historian after all. I don’t know what his office at U of Chicago looked like, but he was there for 35 years so I imagine it may have looked like yours.
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And the office hasn’t gotten any better, since you retired!!!
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