David_Gerard comments on On Things that are Awesome - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 March 2009 03:24AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Article Navigation

Comments (25)
Tags: awesome sacredness

Comments (25)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: MichaelHoward 24 March 2009 02:15:51PM 1 point [-]

For most people their truly awesome work is usually only a slice of their total output, from some particular years (I find that scary as hell, by the way).

Has anyone any good possible explanations for this phenomenon?

Comment author: David_Gerard 21 February 2011 04:58:02PM 0 points [-]

Sometimes it's just a freak brilliant moment. I had an experience like this reading A Clockwork Orange and having it just blow my head off, then reading as much other Anthony Burgess as I could. The results were ... disappointing. (All his other novels suck. All of them. I looked.)

Powered by Reddit Powered by Reddit