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<a href='archives.php?PHPSESSID=bb4d40436bdc322b8ceb2f0287d1fd2c'>archives</a><BR>You suspect that you may be a genius, but you
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can't be sure. It occurs to you that you are
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the most intelligent of your friends (many of
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whose knowledge admittedly outpaces yours) by
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virtue of the way you think. Furthermore, they
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secretly know this to be true and have always
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known it, or at the least for a very long time.
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Your predicament places you at odds with
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everything. To speak of it without proof is
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bald arrogance. But alas, your proof lies in
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those flittering concepts of mind for which
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language has no corollary- not for you, in any
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case, for you are a genius of ideas and not of
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words.
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So you sit and think it to yourself. You
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receive correspondence from an old friend now
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living abroad who has written a book; in the
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book are ideas not unlike your own, although of
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course they are not yours, could not be yours.
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Had you the same facile prose at your disposal
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you could produce a treatise of exceeding repute.
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But as you start to compose your work you are
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met with frustration, and your thoughts are
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transformed and made meaningless and trite.
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Years pass and your wife, who has neglected her
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painting since your schooldays together,
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retrieves the brush and resumes her art with a
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renewed passion. Within months her renderings
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are being acclaimed by top artisans of the
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realm; people flock always to your door,
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wordlessly you let them in and they rush past
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you as if the portal had been blasted open by
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a gust of wind and you, as the wind, are
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invisible. And surely the paintings are
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wondrous; you often go and sit in the garden
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where you can be alone and stare long hours
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through the patio window into the house, at a
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portrait of you when you were young and full of
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ideas. And you think it to yourself as you
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fall asleep.
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