Summary
GENIUS is provocative.
It challenges every witness for a response. It isn't often useful just to say that Shakespeare wasn't too bad, or that Leonardo could paint a bit. Say that, and you have said nothing; understand only that, and all you have truly understood is the extent of your own limitations.See the full content of this document
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Study of Genius That's Not so Clever
The problem is as old as biography. How do you produce an account of an artistic or intellectual giant that approaches the giant's scale? Superlatives, by and large, are cliches. If you say Shakespeare was the greatest playwright who ever lived, what have you actually explained? You mean to suggest a unique, epoch-making achievement.
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