Whiskey Bill had served a mission in a silver bowl on a silver platter. Do not mistake the conclusions I drew as criticism of Davenport’s intuition or his methods. On the contrary. To be brilliant is not a matter of being right more often than the next fellow; yes, that may be part of the pedestrian definition. It is in large part a matter of holding firm to convictions as long as possible, but not a moment longer. The brilliant man must trust he is right even when adrift alone with his convictions, and few people have the stomach for it. There are millions of average women and men who will refuse to take positions at the most important moments in their lives—moments that would have changed the course of their existences—for fear of being proven wrong. Fear is the impassable gulf between the ordinary and the remarkable. Between all of us and Pen Davenport. Davenport was no fool. He embraced reality when it came for him, and then blamed others. “This is what should have happened,”
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