Or to some other person, to a past domestic perhaps of genius for example.
Or to some other person, to a past domestic perhaps of genius for example..
Postmodernism in the arts repudiated many of the basic teachings of modernism: the myth of individual genius, for example, and the concept of originality.
All come from small presses; all come long after the stylish, formally inventive, and popular books of the late-nineties memoir boom (Dave Eggers's "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," for example, and Lauren Slater's "Lying").
Sure, Nabokov in The Real Life of Sebastian Knight and Saul Bellow in Humboldt's Gift did it with complete conviction, but since they are inimitable geniuses their example might act as a warning rather than encouragement.
In the years since, sites have been nominated based on a specific set of criteria -- which include representations of "a masterpiece of human creative genius" and examples of "superlative natural phenomena" -- and are then voted on by the committee, made up of members from a variety of countries.
And when the work isn't top-notch, it usually leads to something that is the music of the indie genius Daniel Johnston, for example.
The exceptions deserve to be regarded as rare geniuses – the greatest example being that eminent Victorian John Ruskin, whose criticism is unrivalled as both writing and thought.
Critics have engaged in a competition of superlatives to describe it: "one of the funniest, cleverest, most inspired programmes currently on television", "cheapest funniest, most outlandishly juvenile, least condescending programme on TV" and "genius" being random examples.
Russell soon decided that Ludwig was the most perfect example of genius he had ever known, and persuaded him not to continue with engineering.
