Now appearances, of course, can be deceptive, and to an extent, this feisty, energetic persona of lecture-going and traffic cone stealing was a veneer, albeit a very well-crafted and convincing one.
As aparências, é claro, podem enganar, e, de certa maneira,  esta vida enérgica e festiva de palestras e roubos  de cones era um disfarce, embora fosse um disfarce  muito bem feito e convincente.