There is a famous snippet which has done the rounds in literary circles for a long Period..
Once the great playwright and satirist GBS (Geroge Bernara Shaw) met the contemporary celibrity dancer and stage performer Isdora Duncan..
The lady was quite conscious and was even boastful about her own beauty..
She was making a point that if a child were born to GBS and her..
She meant that the child would inherit her gorgeous beauty and the superior brains of GBS..
GBS was quick to shoot back a question as to what would happen if the child inherited his beauty and her brains..
The lessons are obvious..
One should not try to show off in the presence of acute minds..Some minds can see things from very different angles.. which ordinary mortals could never do.
The really acute minds have the capacity to laugh at all absurdities including absurdities arising in those minds themselves..
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