Charlatanism
Charlatanism, at least the brand I cultivate of this disreputable commodity, consists in being so transported by the large general, simple aspects of something exciting in life, or nature, or books, or history, or psychology, that without waiting to get the details correct, or the passage verified by exact scholarship, you just rely on your private taste, prejudice, imagination, inspiration, and abandon your whole being to the delight of brooding over what you see and feel…
Judged by the standard of the professional persons who dare not even feel a reaction to anything wonderful and magical in Nature or Art without being sure of all the evidence and without congratulating themselves on their credentials as adepts and on their documents as experts, why! some of the most illuminating writers in the world would have to be labelled by the disparaging word.
—John Cowper Powys, Autobiography
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