I felt good this morning, like I might actually accomplish something. But the computer was screwed up. That killed around five hours. Without my fixing it, just working around the mess. It’s now near noon and it looks like things are back to normal. It’ll need more work, but I need a break from it.
I thought I might write at length today about the maximuteur, my word (just minted) for anyone who makes a serious life-effort to produce a culturework of the highest order. There are two kinds of maximuteurs, culturateurs and aberrateurs, the first succeeding in producing major cultureworks, the second not. I coined the word thinking of myself, of someone who, if he’s a failure, is a failure at the very highest level.