Richard Chalmers — “Collecting as few as a half dozen articles was laborious, boring, tedious work with frequent dead ends.”
What you fail to realize, in your casual faux-intellectual bathrobe and DSL-speed academic certainty —
is that there never were any “dead ends” in visiting the actual libraries and stacks of books and manuscripts.
A great pyhsical library with actual books and shelves is guaranteed to provide revelations you did not anticipate.
What your generation lacks is any sense of desiring a surprise.
You just want to find what you already believe.
Premature certainty is killing your potential to actually think for a change.
You could not recognize genius if it fell off the library shelf and smacked you in the face.
You would view that event as an affront.
To your certainty, right?
