¶ Talent (2)
Index Entry
Talent:
"at relative rates of retarded speed, rate being the inseparable relationship of time and space.
"The harmonious concord inherent in this characteristic of the solitary talented personality of genius enables the talented individual calmly to preoccupy himself with the exquisite refinement of, or better rendition of, the compositions of genius, in all special articulation fields.
"There is no implication in this discussion of talent and genius of a greater importance for either proclivity.
“The function of genius is to provide new instruments and the process-means for the progressive growth of man; talent’s function is the precise and harmonious popularization of the otherwise popularly undetectable, and therefore otherwise non-useful products of genius. What is often mistermed as ‘plagiarism’ is more precisely ‘talent.’ ‘Plagiarism’ is an ethical offshoot label of the false property illusion…”
¶ Citations
- NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON, pp.97-98, 1938
