“A good idea is a highly infectious virus with no cure, that will destroy all fallacious beliefs in its host's mind.”
by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe — from Vicissitudes of Life, chapter 5
In other words
A good idea does not sit politely beside what you already believe. It goes through the house turning things off, and the first thing it turned off in Innocent was his own estimate of what he was worth. The idea was to be an author, and it arrived while his life was a mess, which is part of why it took hold. Signing up for years of trouble felt obviously right anyway, the way it does when you are sure of something and everybody around you is not.
AI-generated from the author's own text.
Elsewhere
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