Additonal question to John Whites post about "diluted genius":

What is a genius? What is the difference between a great composer and
a genius? Is Mozart a genius and Prokofieff not? Why? Is John Lennon a
genius? What, then, is a genius? (Serious questions.  I studied literature
and know the Goethe definition of genius.  But who can for sure state that
Goethe and Shakespeare were geniuses and Guenter Grass and Iris Murdoch
are none?)

Robert Peters
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