schizoid inventor of Calculus

sold one painting in his lifetime to his brother

 

machinery of the universe

Dr. Bromfenbrenner

Patient shows no ambition, no get-up-and-go, no vim.

He is riding the grand loopen-ze-loop ... that goes from the height of delusional gaiety ... to the trough of despair.

He is now near, but not yet at his lowest point. When he reaches bottom, he may erupt und pose a danger to himself ... and others.

Sidney J. Mussburger

Diagnosis, Dr. Bromfenbrenner?

Dr. Bromfenbrenner

Patient is eine manic-depressive paranoid, type B ... with acute schizoid tendencies.

success

"Not the fastest. Not the smartest. The most adaptable wins in the end."
- Paraphrase of Charles Darwin [1809-1882]

definitive styles

"Ernest Hemingway was hard-boiled and J.D. Salinger was soft-boiled."
- Adam Gopnik on two transformative American writers