Of Genius, Madness & being Irish

10.

We all try to hide from ourselves that we are also clowns, children, lunatics and musicians; thus man will never be able to really grow until he recognises his madness as a form of reason; then we will all be artists... or Irish!!

11.

James Joyce, who without question was a genius, abandoned Ireland. Perhaps this was because he was too egocentric to live in a country full of geniuses.

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No one doubts the greatness of James Joyce because if he did so, he should then have to prove that he had not only read Joyce but had also understood him.

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My teacher at primary school said to my mother: "When this boy is big, he'll either be a genius or a complete imbecile." The teacher died some years ago, but even if he were alive now, he would not have the satisfaction of finding out which version of his prophecy had come true. Unfortunately, for the present, I am still a child, for fear of becoming a complete imbecile, I won't risk growing up.

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I still haven't understood if I'm a genius or a madman. But in Ireland I feel normal.

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Even geniuses are sometimes a bit stupid. When for example, the Irish, instead of eating the millions and billions of wild rabbits swarming the countryside or at least exporting them to the Italians, who would pay gold for them, inject them with a virus to kill them off because they ruin the crops.

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