Coltrane hated his playing. Kafka wanted his work burned. Ezra Pound found out at 70 that he had heretofore been "A complete idiot". Goethe,Faust(when he was sixty),opening: I've studied now Philosophy And Jurisprudence, Medicine,— And even, alas! Theology,— From end to end, with labor keen; And here, poor fool! with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before.
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Coltrane hated his playing.
Kafka wanted his work burned.
Ezra Pound found out at 70 that he had heretofore been "A complete idiot".
Goethe,Faust(when he was sixty),opening:
I've studied now Philosophy
And Jurisprudence, Medicine,—
And even, alas! Theology,—
From end to end, with labor keen;
And here, poor fool! with all my lore
I stand, no wiser than before.
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