Agree to disagree. To me, a pure genius would be someone who has a traditional daily job like the majority of us, but they can also output creative content with style and flair like no other on the planet. That’s a genius to me. A brain well above the vast majority of us. Bonus points in that category for what their daily job actually is. If their daily job is being an astrophysicist AND they are one of the most prominent novelists in the world with impeccable prose? That’s beastly. Pure genius level.

It’s easy to forget how good his prose is when he doesn’t write something for nearly 5 to 10 years. I wish my job allowed me years of time where I did nothing. Strange how life works, isn’t it?