He was indeed something of a dilettante and dabbler in many pursuits. Pamulaparti Venkata Kameswara Rao (Chandramohan), a dilettante Brahmin boy, falls in love with Sastri's daughter. Gell was a thorough dilettante, fond of society and possessed of little real scholarship. Alexander Borodin was merely a clever dilettante, and Modest Mussorgsky "had made him laugh". Vance was what many would call a dilettante, but the designation does him an injustice. In 2005, Parfrey co-founded the publishing company Process Media with Jodi Wille of Dilettante Press. Nevertheless, during this period, he remained, in essence, a dilettante. People said he was cold, a calculator, a dilettante. For many years, the son Ion lived the life of a dilettante.