>An artist should be able to write a novel in a few weeks,

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>An artist should be able to write a novel in a few weeks, write a short story on a plane journey, sketch a landscape, sing in front of an audience, perform stand up comedy, act in a play, speak multiple languages, play and compose music, act as a competent cinematographer, critique a leftist, show the facts to a rightist, write news reports from a warzone, sculpt something life size, seduce an attractive young woman, placate an angry brute, be the life and soul of an upscale party, and dance better than 95 % of the population. Specialisation is for STEM autists.

You know who I'm parodying but you know this is true and you know you are trying to squirrel your way in to an obscure corner of literature, hoping to eke out a place for yourself, in some haughty place above the masses yet too scared to live among them for any time at all.