The case for opsimaths

Re:The case for opsimaths by awinter-py on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @11:55PM (#26176008)

robert frost, classic late bloomer, wrote ts eliot a letter (unprompted) saying 'the problem with you is that you know 13 languages and all these texts but nothing about human experience'

eliot, an early genius, responded 'the problem with you is that you're stupid'

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Re:The case for opsimaths by cafard on Thursday February 18, 2021 @06:27AM (#26178593)

That has a distinctly apocryphal look. But thank you, I had forgotten how old Frost was when his first book appeared.

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Re:The case for opsimaths by awinter-py on Friday February 19, 2021 @01:38PM (#26196343)

yeah, have never seen the direct quote myself either. I got it from david galenson, a labor economist who wrote a book about late genius

https://magazine.uchicago.edu/0304/features/index-poetic.htm...

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