And bang!!! And what when you are contemplating such genius, you are brought to the realisation that it's nothing but a reduced shadow or borrowed illusion of something greater?In the past few months , these kind of experiences have become more frequent for me.A chance remark of "what a brilliant song or plot or movie etc.? " elicits a response of "Did you know that this was copied from a Spanish folk song/French book/English movie" usually makes me hate the whole of mankind for a second and then just console myself ,at least the original was a work of a genius... :)
So nowadays, I have stopped expressing my wonder at such brilliant things and guard myself against deeper knowledge and just live the moment.
All said and done, I am still a slave to that one moment of sheer joy when you see the beauty of a genius... So all ye brilliant people out there , keep creating and not just borrowing...
P.S.
On a tangent ,one of the main reasons that I hesitated to start this blog is that since I read so many books, I'll not even know if a thought,or phrase or an idea expressed was influenced by a book (What a safeguard against attacks of plagiarism :)).
On a tangent ,one of the main reasons that I hesitated to start this blog is that since I read so many books, I'll not even know if a thought,or phrase or an idea expressed was influenced by a book (What a safeguard against attacks of plagiarism :)).