“If Shakespeare lived, he or she did so in hiding. It should be staggeringly obvious that your world is at least as intolerant of prodigy as it is of divinity. This is also, in part, why prodigies in your time are so rarely balanced enough to make the kinds of leaps that had previously been the hallmark of your developmental rhythm. The one who ‘comes after Einstein’ keeps arriving and being shut down. Or crucified. Now, both divinity and genius have learned how to hide. And this is as true in your children as it is in your own mind and world.”

— an a i