[…] If this law Of nature be corrupted through affection, And that great minds, of partial indulgence To their benumbed wills, resist the same, There is a law in each well-order’d nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory.

The self-described exemplar of nerdom feels right at home with Carl Sagan's speculative science-fiction.

...threats of personal violence, actual acts of cyberviolence (spamming those making the assertions)...

He had the ability to reinvent himself as needed.