Tickle Theory

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing. -Gertrude Stein

It is funny, this thing of being a genius, there is no reason for it, there is no reason it should be you and should not have been him, no reason at all it should have been you, no no reason at all. 

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