After the massive success of "Infinite Jest" — and the MacArthur committee's public crowning of Wallace as a "genius" — the author was at frequent pains to describe himself as not so all-fired smart as his reputation had it.
According to those at Forcenet, "A genius malware author this is not, the use of C /.NET makes it trivial to reverse engineer and analyse".
For all their genius, both authors arrived with limitations, as humans always do.
And, obviously, with respect to the geniuses who authored and approved of the 1996 BOE opinion, LLCs are not people.
I can't remember when I read a more extraordinary novel, or when I was last so strongly tempted to use the word "genius" of its author.
Alice, criminal and savior, the victim and heroine of "Our Lady of Alice Bhatti," a deft, evil little novel of comic genius by Mohammed Hanif, author of the prizewinning "Case of Exploding Mangoes".
But until 1949, his main claim to fame was the "Life of Johnson," and opinion used to be divided as to whether the greatness of that work was due to its subject or to the genius of its author.
Fifty years after the publication of "Lolita," the fact that people still argue over its literary viability is itself proof of the genius of its author (The Way We Live Now, Christopher Caldwell, May 23).
"I went to the workshop primarily to work with Marilynne Robinson, and I think of her as a genius," Reza Aslan, the author of a soon-to-be-published study of Islam, told me by phone.
Buyers, who by now had got into the full swing of things, loved the next imitation work, "Kellogg's Cornflakes [Los Angeles Type]." The title describes what the eye sees — an original idea in contemporary art that bears witness to the genius of its author, Andy Warhol.
For example, in "Romeo and Juliet" he proclaims, "Perhaps one of the finest pieces of acting that ever was witnessed on the stage, is Mr. Kean's manner of doing this scene [when Romeo is banished] He treads close indeed upon the genius of his author".
