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How to Become an Intellectual is at once a
how-to manual and a glib walk through several thousand years of science and culture, complete with cameo appearances by everyone from Plato and Socrates to Freud and Marie Curie.
Available April 2012 in bookstores, as well as
on-line.
Great Moments in Intellectual Discourse, Continued
May 29, 2012
“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
– Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), one of those writers who could spin an enduring bit of prose or down seventeen shots with equal aplomb. Keep that quote in mind the next time someone introduces themselves as both an intellectual and an artist.
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