Charles PenceMar 10

It is very interesting, as I get older, to realize that what looked like "brilliance" from senior faculty members when I was young was just "hey this person has read *a lot* and is pretty good at remembering and connecting lots of interesting things about what they read"

You, too, can cultivate this brilliance if you read *a lot* and practice connecting dots

Show threadSylvia Wenmackers 🦉🍀
@pence I think I've always considered it as (and aspired to) erudition.
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Show threadCharles PenceMar 10
@SylviaFysica That's also part of it, though I sometimes feel like it's an independent axis. When they combine, it's *very* impressive. (One thing I've particularly liked about moving here is that Francophone academics still seem to *very* much prize that classic ability to deliver an *incredible* oration. The Sécrétaire perpetuel of the ARB will deliver *rhyme* at the plenary sessions of the Academy. RHYME)
Show threadSylvia Wenmackers 🦉🍀Mar 10
@pence Oh, rhyme is definitely another axis! 😮
Poetry dimension ̶u̶n̶l̶o̶c̶k̶e̶d̶ takes praxis!