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cosmolinguistI think most people wouuld look at most of the sentences in these essays I've had to read recently shaking their heads and saying "I have no idea what this means. How could you be stupid enough to bring this upon yourself?"
A smart person would slog through the analogies and allusions, appositives and dependent clauses, linking the meaning together as if punctuation marks are really dots to be connect before any piture of the whole can be discerned.
The true sign of genius is someone who doesn't try to fit all the complexities of scholarly bad writing in her head at once, but instead skims over a paragraph-long sentence, trying to get the point and then (proving to herself that she has gotten the point) realizes: "I don't need to care about thsi stuff! The important point is in the next paragraph!" And she goes on to read the next paragraph.
Mostly I am a "most people" kind of person. But I had at least one moment of genius yesterday, and I'm happy for that.
A smart person would slog through the analogies and allusions, appositives and dependent clauses, linking the meaning together as if punctuation marks are really dots to be connect before any piture of the whole can be discerned.
The true sign of genius is someone who doesn't try to fit all the complexities of scholarly bad writing in her head at once, but instead skims over a paragraph-long sentence, trying to get the point and then (proving to herself that she has gotten the point) realizes: "I don't need to care about thsi stuff! The important point is in the next paragraph!" And she goes on to read the next paragraph.
Mostly I am a "most people" kind of person. But I had at least one moment of genius yesterday, and I'm happy for that.