Original artwork, not a still
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Stein pokes fun at the romantic image of genius, suggesting that behind flashes of brilliance is actually a lot of unglamorous stillness. Being a genius, in her telling, mostly means enduring long stretches of apparent idleness, sitting around doing nothing so thoroughly it becomes a kind of discipline.
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