Genius

Yeah.

We had a agreement to do that for a year, and he called that night and I was prepared, and I said, "Steve, I wanna talk to you about the name again." And I said, "The main reason I want that name is I wanna be in a position where we have everyone in every city we put a store fighting to be one of the Geniuses."

Mm.

"'Cause who wouldn't wanna be the smartest Apple person in Minneapolis? The smartest Apple person in New York City?"

Sic transit gloria mundi such is the way of the world a free translation I know but highly applicable.

End of The Tragedy of Genius Section thirty-five of Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field by H. W. Fisher.

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Kiltys and the Lassie I heard a good one on a young Scotchman a fellow who was always trying to show off in Kiltys.

Section fifty-four of Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field by H.W. Fisher.

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Genius in Extremis.

When we were about to pass the French Embassy in Berlin one afternoon, Mark dragged me across the street, saying, "See those horses? That Kaiser is in there making love to the ambassador's wife.

But one class of them, called men of genius, though better named monkeys of genius, have recently crept in under that advertising sign which uses the language of minds extraordinarily favored by nature, declares all laborious learning and investigating to be bungling work, and believes it has grasped the essence of all science by one stretch of its hands, though it pretends to deal it out concentrated in small but powerful doses.

This class, like the class of quacks and advertising doctors, is very injurious to progress in scientific and moral culture whenever its members decide on matters of religion, politics, and morals in an unappealable tone from the heights of their throne of wisdom, and thus try to cover up the poverty of their intellect.

How else can they be answered than by our laughing at them and patiently pursuing our path with industry, order, and clearness, without paying attention to their jugglery? Section 57 Genius also seems, according to the differences of national dispositions and of the soil on which it is born, to have various different germs in itself and to develop them differently.

With the Germans, it strikes out more in the root, with the Italians in the crown, with the French in the blossoms, and with the English in the fruit.

Again, the universal mind, which understands all sciences of whatever kind, must be distinguished from genius, which is inventive.

He gets seven yards on second down-

Genius.

Absolute genius

... and puts them practically on the goal line.

And, uh, you know, I know Pink wrote it on spec, and, uh, you know, we were, we, we gathered together the cast and, um, you know, I, I told myself I wouldn't make it unless I got a cast that I was really excited about collaborating with, and Matthias Schoenaerts sh- shot it.

He's somebody that I've, I'd worked with on a season of, uh, Genius, our, our show from Nat Geo.

He did this, the, the season ab-

Uh-huh

I think of such men as Napoleon, Goethe, Beethoven, Stendhal, Heinrich Heine, Schopenhauer.

It must not be taken amiss if I also count Richard Wagner among them, about whom one must not let oneself be deceived by his own misunderstandings.

Geniuses like him have seldom the right to understand themselves.

Still less, of course, by the unseemly noise with which he is now resisted and opposed in France.

The fact remains, nevertheless, that Richard Wagner and the later French Romanticism of the forties are most closely and intimately related to one another.