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more about #creativity more comments → ItchykooParker: Oh for fuck's sake, here we go again. I was hoping I could read this post WITHOUT having to wade through endless Gilbert hate. Seems I was wrong. Seri... more » resonanteye: I could live up to even more expectations, if I were being paid enough. I'm doign just well enough right now to do as well as I am, if you get my drif... more » tscheese: My mystical fairy juice comes in fat little jugs that say "CARLO ROSSI" on them. more » Wit is periodically disensouled: Dear Ms. Gilbert: Fairies bite. They also steal souls and children (See "Thomas the Rhymer," "Tam Lin," "The Ballad of Sir Orfeo," or "Der Erlkonig")... more » LaComtesse: Whenever someone suggests we go back to a pre-Renaissance attitude about ANYTHING, I think that person should take a good long look in the mirror. more » argle-bargle? or fou-ferraw?: whoa, whoa, whoa... does anyone else have a problem with this? um, i kind of take offense at the suggestion that i'm not responsible for creating MY a... more » Beets.Go.On is the Fat Yogini: yes, geniuses HAVE been using outside sources for inspiration and release from the pressures of existence. They are called drugs, alcohol, sex, nature... more » J.D.Regent: Don't worry honey, nobody thinks you're a genius. more » gangey: @LittleNemo: Working title: Whine, Self-indulge, Lecture. more » gangey: "Mystical fairy juice" reeks of faux New Age religiousity because that is what Ms. Gilbert does best. more » TheFormerJuneBronson: She really is rather shameless. more » pandorasmittens: "on loan to you from some unimaginable source for some exquisite portion of your life, which you pass along when you're finished to somebody else" My ... more » St. Francis of a Sissy: And my recession special white bean soup is mystical farty juice. more » kontrolle: So, she's talking about absinthe, right? more » YourScreenplaySucks: allowing somebody ... to believe that he or she is ... the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, internal mystery is just like ... more » -
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Genius Is Like "Mystical Fairy Juice," Says Eat, Pray, Love Author
Do society's expectations destroy geniuses? So says the ubiquitous Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love (which we promise not to bash at all in this post). More »
