"A genuine original, Spike Milligan was a troubled, gifted man with a unique mind, an affinity for children, and a puzzled pity for humanity and the animal world".
At that point, The Exegesis will bring you extraordinarily close to his unique mind, with its mixture of doubt, wild invention, minuscule detail, grandiose theory and wry humour.
I know the word has been overused, but intellectually they were true anarchists — you don't follow one line, no one can format you, you're a unique individual with a unique mind".
He suddenly saw that the true subject of a new poetry couldn't be the usual things — landscapes, flowers, pretty girls, sunsets — but, rather, the way those things are refracted through one's own unique mind.
In a company that's revolutionised animated storytelling with the likes of the Toy Story trilogy, Finding Nemo and Wall-E, the 46 year-old Docter might just be the most unique mind there is.
For years after it was founded, Martha Graham was the principal influence, but now it's the homegrown choreographer Ohad Naharin, with his unique mind-body technique — known as Gaga — who has shaped the company's fierce, seemingly boneless style.
"Winston Churchill: Portrait of a Unique Mind" (Pen and Sword Books, $40), written by an M.D., Andrew Norman, examines Churchill's bouts of suffocating depression — his so-called Black Dog days — when he would contemplate suicide.
Hence, we're saddled with Kanye's The Life Of Pablo, which feels like being locked in the unique mind of its creator with no parole in sight, and isn't even finished yet, making it an album that's theoretically measurable in years, not minutes.
IT IS likely that sometime today Sachin Tendulkar, the greatest batsman of his generation, will walk out into the middle at Birmingham's Edgbaston cricket ground and attempt to achieve a unique, mind-boggling feat scoring a century in an international match for the 100th time.
He's among the few masters; he's a unique mind, true genius.
