From: QueeneMUSE@aol.com
Date: Mon Jan 13 1997 - 10:31:22 MST
SOME ADVICE:
Work on *becoming* a genius , forget sexual assignment.
Since "muse" and "genius" are both words that began in myth and trickled down
into our current culture, I have been reading this thread with some interest,
but I would like to talk about genius and forget about feminist rants or male
egos.
The dictionary first defines genius as a spirit or guardian assigned to a
person at birth or a tutelary deity...
Then it defines it as a jinni, demon .
THEN ( get this): "particular character or essential spirit of a nation,
place, age, etc"
Then:
"natural ability, strong disposition or inclination;innate ability (with to
or for) ... "great mental capacity and inventive abitlity, great and
original creative abiltity in some art, science, etc.."
Last definition:
a person having such capacity or ability.
THE LAST THING IT SAYS IS : "see: talent"
I have a lot of dictionaries and they all follow this mode
The word came from the base: 'genere' to PRODUCE.
(as in GENUS)
There's only one thing I know FOR SURE about genius, and that is: you don't
become one by talking, discussing, or thinking about being one.
I must get back to my painting.
Nadia
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