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The Dispatch, Moline, Illinois, Thursday, October 16, 1958
Genius and Joy
One of the marks of genius, it is said, is single-mindedness, an ability to shut out the world in the pursuit of an objective. A recent article about Sigmund Freud credits him with this knack.
And now there is Bobby Fischer, a 15-year-old Brooklyn boy who has become one of the world masters of chess. “Bobby has few friends his own age,” said the news item. “He comes home from school about 2 o'clock and picks up a chess book. Every spare minute, he is either reading about chess, analyzing moves on his bedside chess board, or going somewhere to play chess.”
The genius no doubt finds the same degree of joy in his life as anyone else. But he certainly misses a lot.
