The Geography Of Genius: A Search For The World's Most Creative Places From Ancient Athens To Silicon Valley - Plot & Excerpts
It is served in a glass teapot, with chrysanthemum buds floating in the hot water like lilies in a Vermont pond.I pour carefully, handling the pot with the sort of hypervigilant care typically reserved for surgical instruments or very small children. Slowly, I take a sip. It tastes like beauty. Genius can adhere to any object, no matter how mundane. Genius—this particular kind of genius—is not a noun or verb but an adjective, a free-floating property waiting for the right host, be it a person, a place, or an especially good cup of tea.I once met a reformed coffee addict who told me how he was up to six, seven cups a day when something in him snapped and he decided to go cold turkey. No more coffee. Only tea. “Coffee made me think more quickly, but tea made me think more deeply,” he said with the conviction of the converted. Now, sitting here holding this perfect cup of tea in this perfect little café in Hangzhou, I realize he may be right and wonder, does that explain the difference between Chinese and Western genius?
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