Thursday, 31 July 2014

{The Infinite Genius [continued] – Defining Genius}[23rd November 1976]

[Redbook2:89][19761123:1820c]{The Infinite Genius [continued] – Defining Genius}[23rd November 1976]

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It may be that this gives a reference-point or dividing line for some useful value-judgements: not between 'literature' and 'the rest', since 'literature' at present covers far more than this; but perhaps between high literary genius and the rest. So one says that the difference between great music and the rest is that one may grow tired of the latter; but the more one listens to the former, rich and indigestible though one may find it, the more one discovers.

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