To borrow a phrase from HBO's classic Mr. Show, he's pretty much 'King Shit of Fuck Mountain.' A lofty title to be sure, yet one decidedly earned given his unwavering work ethic and the genius observations regularly spilling from his brain.
This sentence about the poet Philip Larkin could apply to his own work: "What saves Larkin from sounding merely like the saltiest wit in the alehouse is his genius for observations that have an almost caressing regard".
Henry Mayhew's "London Labor and the London Poor" is another epic of obsessive observation, genius for attention and extraordinary expressiveness.
In the character sketches and humorous passages scattered throughout the book, Bunyan's genius for realistic observation prevents the conversion allegory from becoming too inward and obsessed.
Dickens's genius for human observation at its quickest reaches a kind of pinnacle with the young man who tries to exercise his French and says "Esker" at a Veneering dinner, says nothing more and never reappears.
This series of rapturous sketches of postwar Rome and its people, originally published in 1952 and updated in 1974, displays Clark's "genius for attention, observation and recording" and "a true sense and love of the grand, the tragic, the beautiful," Katherine Anne Porter wrote in the Book Review.
Merton's observation about scientific geniuses is clearly not true of artistic geniuses, however.
His genius for writing, and his perceptive observations, led to his influence and the widespread adoption of his use of language.
Puzo called The Godfather a 'strategic genius.' Nothing escaped the Don's observation.
As a professor and trainer who teaches a series of innovation and creativity programs, I can tell you from observation that innovation is not for geniuses working alone.
After decades of minute observation, he concludes that hard work and perseverance matter more than genius".
