Jun 11
4 min read
Mess as a Marker of “Genius”
On Johnson, Boswell, and Macleod’s Books of Vancouver
Samuel Johnson is one of those writers I read about but never read in college. He was the gleaming pole star in a constellation of eighteenth-century London “wits” who collectively created the persona of the literary man (as opposed to the scholar). For undergraduates at least, it was enough to know that Johnson was “the…
