And I'm going to reread Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks (Vintage Classics) to marvel again at how a 25-year-old could have the impudence to take on such a huge subject and the genius to deal with it so majestically.
Seven years later, after Hitchcock's death, Mr. Spoto delivered a more feather-ruffling portrait, "The Dark Side of Genius," which dealt with Hitchcock's life as well as with his work.
Dave Eggers's A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius, which deals with the loss of both the author's parents from cancer and his subsequent guardianship of a young brother, tells of tragedy with the voice of a stand-up comic and the graphic flourishes of a cartoonist.
That stands in contrast to Eggers' first book, the monumental memoir "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," which despite dealing with serious issues was a delightful, giddy, exuberant work.
Though he was charming, elegant and an architect of genius, the difficulty of dealing with him and his dream-designs had got abroad.
Religions are not dealing with geniuses.
"I familiarized myself with his work and realized I was dealing with a genius," Mr. McHale, who now stars in NBC's "Community," said by phone.
When you picture spear-phishing, Swordfish or other hacker movies are the wrong image – we're not dealing with cyber geniuses who bang away on the keyboard until they control the entire network.
"I am either dealing with madness or genius, and it's just about to come out in the wash".
