Curiously, no one seems to agree on which are best, which suggests that people value very different aspects of his writing.
Shouldn’t we then consider that the awesomeness mean to which authors (broadly) regress reflects less their talent/circumstances and more our own subjective experience?
The best stuff, from the top end of the bell curve, will have lots of factors going for it:
very motivated author
author was in the right place at the right time
author is very talented
this is unusually good work for this author
The general effect is called “regression toward the mean” .
Curiously, no one seems to agree on which are best, which suggests that people value very different aspects of his writing.
Shouldn’t we then consider that the awesomeness mean to which authors (broadly) regress reflects less their talent/circumstances and more our own subjective experience?