Richardson recounted this same anecdote thirty years later at the 1995 conference on the work of Emmanuel Levinas hosted by Loyola University in Chicago. Here, he reveals more details in a story that was otherwise shrouded in mystery: “The gentleman” was none other than Emmanuel Levinas. The reception was Richardson’s post-dissertation celebration at Louvain. And Levinas, who had just published Totality and Infinity (1961), served as one of the examiners. In addition to revealing more details, Richardson also confessed that he had not forgiven Levinas for what Richardson interpreted, in the sardonic joke, as a lapse in Levinas’s ethical judgment. Richardson insinuated that Levinas’s lapse demonstrated that he (Levinas) was unable to live up to his own ethical command.