Joe B. WallJan 5, 2025

I have no interest in being a novelist, but essayist, man of letters, raconteur, and novalla-ist?

Yes—I'd cop to those. Novelists are too puffy.

#novella #Raconteur #manofletters #essayist

रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)Apr 25, 2021

"A Gallery Of Know-It-Alls", Joseph Epstein, Commentary (https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/joseph-epstein/polymath-know-it-alls/).

#Polymath #KnowItAll #Encyclopedia #Knowledge #History #RenaissanceMan #ManOfLetters #Science #Arts #Book #BookReview #Renaissance

A Gallery of Know-It-Alls

Epistemology, the theory and study of knowledge and how it is acquired, is unsatisfactory on the subject of the polymath, or the person of extraordinarily wide-ranging knowledge. Nor is it

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