V’day indeed! If I must surrender to silliness of Valentine’s day: then my untimebound valentine - verily the very essence of victory :-P the seriously ravishable Churchill (I know I’ve gone on about him before but) he truly embodied genius:
- creatively (he could rival Edison in prolific applied innovation & outperform any in creative strategy - to win a megalithic war you gotta have some deep skills.. and of course he painted and wrote - damn well)
- in unparalleled courage with which he impassioned a nation,
- in clarity of vision &
- communicating it in such style and of course
- the wow!factor of his unstoppable determination
- the dangerous scalpel-sharp wit coupled with a charisma & character large enough to change the course of history. Profound leadership.
C’mon, how could one not fall in love with the delicious curmugeonly chap. Brittle, arrogant, drunken and dogmatic perhaps but perfection holds little delight for me. Francis Bacon said it best:
There is no excellent beauty that hath not strangeness in its proportion
although Feynman may nudge him out in the funstakes, ..oh gosh and then there’s always marvellous Mozart: who truly understood the nature of genius
| Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius - Mozart |
Oh the delights of great men to adore, if I started a list now I’d be engulfed >> from an adoring little huntress of those wild & wonderful : in celebration of men of courage, curiosity, creativity, character, com… (oops, I almost started giving away the What Makes Genius symptom list!) if you are daring to do something remarkable today I wish you a real V’day ..for Victory 
Hey listen up fella! I am classified as a grump. Does that qualify me to be venerated on this day next year too?
most certainly Mr Bruce ;-) & iScatterlings has already secured my vote for best - OverseasSAblog in the mayhem strewn SABlogAwards ..such fun! the party has begun & mud is being slung
Mmmm mud and parties go well with me! When can I sling the first mudpie and who at and why for?
What about ‘great’ women? You’re just more into men? :-) Hm, ok, but your male audience might be interested in genius-women as well (with pics, preferably).
I recently learned that the person with the highest IQ (228) is a … woman (http://www.mensa.org/index0.php?page=15).
Looking forward - keep up the GREAT work!
J