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Curiously, not every "genius" is equally suffocated by the label.
"For me, every genius has their own complexity.
But, as anyone who has ever worked in a publishing house reading the slush pile can attest, virtually every genius that can be discovered is discovered.
"Think of every genius you have ever heard of," she writes, "and the likelihood is that they will have been born at home – Mozart, Beethoven, Einstein, Elgar".
When every comic actor becomes a genius, it seems, every genius becomes a comic actor: "comic genius" Albert Brooks (The Alberta Report) was born Albert Einstein.
This friend of mine claims that every genius is bound to go insane because all geniuses in the past have gone insane.
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This is the mythic riddle posed to every physical genius at the end of his run: Can you exist without the thing that has created you?
Unless almost every young genius in the country is coming through her office, then, she is recording a far higher incidence of profoundly gifted children than the statistical distribution of I.Q.
For every lone genius, there are 1,000 people who believe themselves to be one, but who either unwittingly repeat other people's work or who, without a sufficient grounding in science, begin with a wildly mistaken premise and go downhill from there.
A gigantic retrospective of this great photographer of the American vernacular scene, whose sly and haunting works (grungy cityscapes, wild landscapes, portraits and nudes) can put you in mind of Auden's remark that "every 'original' genius" has something "a bit shady about him".
For every creative genius, there's someone lurking in the shadows who's not seeking the limelight, who is there to help and listen to all their craziness.
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