in "The men and women he knew are odd." is it the public think Lee odd, or Lee think the public odd? Marguerite Oswald is the most implausible individual in her son's life, himself excluded, and she may be sui generis, but then they are all implausible. It would be too facile to dismiss the public's desire to quarantine Lee as mere smugness. The men and women he knew are odd. Indeed, Oswald is rather like a Dickensian caricature.