Arcebus - I think that must be it... lol

• reading a book now with a couple of quotes:

"Know what talent is?  It is the curse of expectation.  As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow.  If you can write you think you were put on the earth to blow Shakespeare away." 

Or if you can paint, maybe you think you were put on the earth to blow a Rembrandt away?  When I realized my work would be at best good, but probably never be great -

" - that voice of disappointed expectation - that cheated child's voice that can never be satisfied with a mild superlative as good - has fallen pretty much silent.  Why should the silencing of that childish, demanding voice seem so much like dying?

(A little off topic perhaps, but oddly interesting nonetheless...   ;-)

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