Hogwash
Hadleigh confidently decided that he was really much like the avocado pit he was reading about.
Oh, not a real avocado pit but he had a writing career spanning so many years, with so many great ideas in his head just wating to send forth roots, shoots and grandness, that there did seem a parallel.
‘Good Heavens!’ Hadleigh thought with a start.
‘What if this handsome head looks all pear shaped and green like an avocado with ears!’
Avocado pits, Hadleigh reasoned, were stuffed with food, their embryonic roots and shoots nestled tightly within, just waiting for the right time, temperature and water to sprout and grow into gigantic trees that provided so very much to the ecosystem at large!
Surely, his ideas and beliefs were absolutely as expansive and long lived, weren’t they?
Hadleigh shook his head and decided that this strange parallel between his own brilliance and an avocado pit was probably just a lot of hogwash.
Oh, not a real avocado pit but he had a writing career spanning so many years, with so many great ideas in his head just wating to send forth roots, shoots and grandness, that there did seem a parallel.
‘Good Heavens!’ Hadleigh thought with a start.
‘What if this handsome head looks all pear shaped and green like an avocado with ears!’
Avocado pits, Hadleigh reasoned, were stuffed with food, their embryonic roots and shoots nestled tightly within, just waiting for the right time, temperature and water to sprout and grow into gigantic trees that provided so very much to the ecosystem at large!
Surely, his ideas and beliefs were absolutely as expansive and long lived, weren’t they?
Hadleigh shook his head and decided that this strange parallel between his own brilliance and an avocado pit was probably just a lot of hogwash.
“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence
is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.”
~ Robert Hughes, [Modernism’s Patriarch (Time Magazine,)]
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