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Genius is inspired action, compelled by passion, by love. It is realized through engagement–a kind of melding–with an idea, a domain, or, most profoundly, the whole of existence. Genius can be manifested in a burst of illumination or creation, or in a trickling, sustained endeavor that may or may not yield a "work of genius". An extraordinary "intelligence quotient" is not requisite for the existence of genius; nevertheless, such quantity may reflect a narrow band or hue (or narrow bands or hues) of the spectrum of genius in that what underlies said quantity may, in fact, be passion–passion for numerical relationships and manipulation, for linguistic or symbolic expression, or the like; or for a subsuming domain that requires (and, through such connection, passionately embraces the development of) fluency in such domains. We sometimes refer to one as "a genius", but as has been said, genius is action, and as some who have "earned" the appellation might attest, such action is only as great as the self is small. That is to say, the action that is genius is impersonal. Uncontrollable, it flows fitfully from a tap in the vastness that is intelligence.
