Character Sketch of Joe Provenzano Term Paper

Oh, we just came back from a shoot-out. I participate in the Single Action Shooting Society where I go by the name Tex Fiddler," Joe said.

How in the world did you come up with Tex Fiddler?," I asked unable to repress my curiosity.

Well, I am from Texas and I love to play the fiddle. It is one of my hobbies," he said.

After this awkward introduction, we invited Joe and his wife to join us for the late meal we were having. Joe seemed very at ease in everything he was doing and saying. He and my husband talked about work, horses, guns and philosophy at the same time. Joe had an opinion on every subject and he always shared it. His infatuation with old western customs was obviously just one of his many different pastimes. Joe Provenzano was definitely a philosopher and Tex Fiddler, the character he invented, was one of his ways to speculate about reality.Me and my wife like wearing these old western costumes," he said at one point. "This way we can go back in time and experience something else. The more costumes you wear, the more speculations you make about the nature of reality. And this helps us get one step closer to the ultimate truth."

The evening went on like in this way, and by the end, my husband and I had almost turned into philosophers ourselves. The next day my husband went to his interview at the Jet Propulsion Laboratories and he was offered the position. We ultimately moved down to Los Angeles where he worked for four years before moving to Seattle. During our time in Los Angeles, I met a number of unusual characters who worked with my husband, but none was more eccentric than Joe. I wonder if Joe Provenzano would have been Joe Pro-if he had been born and raised in Italy......