Heavy envelopes with sample chapters from both Snowflake and Gardener left my local post office an eternity ago... well more like a week ago. Now all I can do is wait. While I wait, though, you don’t have to. I’ve uploaded the first chapter of the Gardener and I hope you enjoy reading it.
While writing this first chapter, I got to know Professor Tony Walker as a brilliant scientist who is misunderstood by the majority of his colleagues. He is not unique and his struggle is not unusual. History gives us plenty examples of gifted talented people who were never understood by their friends, colleagues, by the society they served. It seems that genius of a person is rarely acknowledged by his/her contemporaries; that job is left for descendants, for next generations. Why is that?
Saturday 5 September 2009
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I was left with mixed feeling after reading introduction. Those are gone now and I’m sure I’m going to enjoy this book.
ReplyDeletePeople don’t like geniuses because they don’t understand them. A genius is somebody who typically has knowledge or understanding well beyond the time they live in and that is why it takes generations to really appreciate and acknowledge their achievements.
Good start, keep going.
ReplyDeleteI’m not sure the problem of gifted people being misunderstood really applies in modern times. Maybe in the past or nowadays in some third world countries. Nobel Prize and various other awards for brilliance are proof that geniuses and very talented people are recognised and rewarded here and now.
I agree this problem doesn’t exist anymore. If somebody is truly talented, they’ll be recognised by society.
ReplyDeleteI’m probably repeating myself, but starting a new book is an incredibly serious decision. It’s a beginning to a massive amount of hard scrupulous work. I wish you patience and I wish you luck.
ReplyDeleteWhile our society continues to suffer from envy, cupidity, careerism, there’ll be problems with honest acknowledgement of human brilliance. It certainly is more difficult for geniuses to make their way through life, because often they are alone on their path.
"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket." Chinese Proverb (took ages to find this one). So Gardener's like two in one!
ReplyDeleteI absolutely agree that life is much harder for geniuses. Firstly, there’s very few of us. Secondly, we have many rivals. What?! As I’ve nothing to expect from contemporaries, I’ve decided to speak up myself... to extent my modesty allows me ;-) Anyway, it’s very hard to understand work of genius because you have to be close to genius yourself to do that.
It's a good chapter.
ReplyDeleteThe main problem of talented people is that their work is often judged by others who don’t really know what they’re doing.
Looks like “Gardener” will keep me here for a while.
ReplyDeleteAlbert Einstein said that intellectuals solve problems, while geniuses prevent them.
We have too many problems, because there aren’t enough geniuses among us.
I don’t like giving out useless compliments. I remember when I was young it was compliments, or rather lies, that made me do what I really hated. I played violin for over a year because of my parents’ assurances that I was a genius. I knew it wasn’t true, but thanks to their compliments I tortured myself and our neighbours for a very long time.
ReplyDeleteI found the idea for the “Gardener” interesting. It’s not a compliment. I do not think Ana needs any.
The main problem of geniuses is that ordinary people like us can never truly understand them.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
ReplyDeleteBenjamin Franklin
I was surprised having seen on pages of the blog Chapter 1 Gardener. I read the plot of the new book but at all did not expect that it happens so quickly. I am till now under impression.
ReplyDeleteAna, you give me so much positive emotions! The introduction with its train leaving in frightening tunnel... It is pleasant to me! I am glad to meet the new friendly family of the professor Tony Walker. I think that you have grown in the same good family.