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...think probably Mike is going to be a genius at this because he’s an engineer,” Faust said in a phone interview on Monday...
...blog, my friend Shane K. Wilson ’07 quotes Pound Professor of Law Roberto M. Unger: “To gain freedom of insight and action in a more remote context, often at the price of ineptitude in an immediate one, is a definition of genius.” Without geniuses there would be no intellectual situation to speak of, only hollow feedback, the sound of measuring tapes flapping and brows furrowing. Genius versus critic is Lil’ Wayne v. Kanye West; Bush v. Cheney; Twin Towers v. Freedom Tower; Sal Paradise v. Dean Moriarty (maybe); early...
...critic is to trade transcendence in for self-awareness and proficiency—which is not to say that geniuses don’t know what they’re doing, because Lil’ Wayne does, or that critics aren’t competent. The point is just that genius involves a sort of freefall, brave, bold and fluent, that most of us aren’t capable of. I am a critic because of why I do the headphones thing; like all critics, I wish I were a genius, a.k.a. someone who pumps the music up just because...
DeLong added: “So Andrei’s first impression was that I was a true genius. This first impression has stuck with him—in spite of much evidence to the contrary—for 21 years, and has greatly enriched my life.” ONE IN CAMBRIDGE...
...this is not mere attention to visual and behavioral detail; it is a consummate film artist's weaving of a world and its inhabitants. Reygadas' genius is to sanctify each moment -the milking of cows and harvesting of grain, the children being washed in a stream, a sweetly illicit kiss in the woods -so that, when melodrama intrudes, it will have the power of inevitable tragedy...