Echoes in a Hollow Space

Random quote of the day:

“A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.”

—Samuel Johnson, letter to Joseph Baretti, December 21, 1762

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“Genius is only childhood recovered at will, childhood now gifted to express itself with the faculties of manhood and with the analytic mind that allows him to give order to the heap of unwittingly hoarded material.”

—Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life

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Random quote of the day:

“In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.”

—Robert Green Ingersoll, “Liberty in Literature”

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Random quote of the day:

“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.”

—Sir Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Random quote of the day:

“Between the psychology of the man of genius and the pathology of the insane, there are many points of coincidence; there is even continuity.”

—Cesare Lombroso, The Man of Genius, 1895

 

 

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Random quote of the day:

 

“Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.”

—William Blake, “Proverbs of Hell,” The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

 

 

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Random quote of the day:


"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction."

—Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions






( Illustrated version. )


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Writing talk of the day: Wow, I hit the ground running today. A 1750 word session on Night Warrior/Born to Darkness to finish off this section of the book. Which means I will probably pull Eudora's Song and post another new chapter by the end of the week.

This section was especially gnarly for me. When I started it, I realized a whole big chunk needed to go into a previous section so I had to backtrack and add another chapter in the 6th century. This made me feel like I was losing forward momentum. But I'm good now, I think. And I have part of the next section already written, so we'll see how it goes.

Quote of the day: This quote from Tom Stoppard's Arcadia (my all time favorite Stoppard play) was wending its way through my mind on the drive to work this morning. Septimus Hodge, a Byronesque tutor of a brilliant young girl, is consoling her when she becomes grief stricken over the loss of knowledge when the great library of Alexandia burned down in ancient times:

"We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it."

--Septimus Hodge, Arcadia by Tom Stoppard

( Musings cut out of pity for the flist. )