Literary Genius?
citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Mon, 25 Oct 1999 09:02:35 -0700
Camille wrote:
>
>P.S. I wrote my first significant major work at age 9 and my second, a full
>length novel, at twelve. While I sure don't claim to be any kind of genius
>(a genius would get more work done (: ) I know that if you come home from
>school every day and write, buy a good thesaurus and spend the eleven years
>leading up to it reading voraciously and - yeah, you could write a 20,000
>word letter to your parents at age 7!
>
Given that at age 9 I was perfecting my kickball style and at age 12 was
worried about my batting average on my little league team, and given that I
didn't commit my first sinful scrawl on an innocent piece of paper until the
age of nineteen, there's a chance in my thesaurus one might find your name
somewhere in the list of synonyms.
I think you mentioned your 22nd birthday recently. Belated wishes, and for
god's sake take will's advice of a few weeks ago and give yourself *enough*
time to accomplish the big accomplishment. Even JDS *really* didn't hit
his stride until APDFB at the age of 29, Rilke until the poem "Orpheus.
Eurydice. Hermes" at the age of 28, Kafka until the story "Judgment" at the
age of 29, and Beckett until the story "The Expelled" at 39.
best wishes,
Bruce