Bobby Fischer and Glenn Gould

Why do I always think of Bobby Fischer and Glenn Gould in tandem? They are near-contemporaries (Gould born in 1932, Fischer in 1943). They both more or less abandoned their meteoric careers in their early 30s. Both held eccentric views (although Fischer's were far more noxious). Both were paranoid. Both had bizarre performance requirements. Both are theorized to have had Asperger's syndrome (and that makes sense).

If you Google their names together, you get more than 25,000 joint hits, so I am scarcely the first to have had this perception that they are somehow a pair. Here is an interesting blog post comparing them:

http://zunguzungu.wordpress.com/tag/glenn-gould/