Remembering Anthony Fenech (1938-2006)

Abstract

We became acquainted with Mr Anthony Fenech more than ten years ago in the stamp-shop of Mr Joseph Buttigieg in Malta (Sliema/Manwel-Dimech-Street), which we frequented at regular intervals during our sojourns on the island, devoted not only to scientific research but also to recreation. A man, sitting there every Tuesday morning on a small tabouret at the side of the counter with numerous scribbling sheets of paper before him, at the first moment we took for a customer, having special wishes, apparently as difficult as time-consuming. Not wanting to press foreward ourselves (the performance of our own shopping empirically took even more time than an hour), we gave Mr Buttigieg to understand, he first of all might serve this customer; we would wait, of course, as long as necessary. [excerpt]