A Real Class Act
According to F. Scott Fitzgerald, circa the Roaring Twenties:
“The test of a first-rate intelligence
is the ability to hold two opposing ideas
in mind at the same time
and still retain the ability to function”
Updated for the 2020s:
An intellectual’s first job
is to counterpose
what can be known
to what may be thought
in order to retain the ability to function professionally
