Surely the explanation is just that things which are unusually good are unusual. You wouldn’t expect someone to write a book as good as GEB every time they wrote a book, just as you wouldn’t expect any given book to be as good as GEB (although I personally got more out of Le Ton Beau de Marot...)
Surely the explanation is just that things which are unusually good are unusual. You wouldn’t expect someone to write a book as good as GEB every time they wrote a book, just as you wouldn’t expect any given book to be as good as GEB (although I personally got more out of Le Ton Beau de Marot...)