Martin Rundkvist on Nostr: Couldn't parse this sentence in Carrère's P.K. Dick bio, had to resort to auto ...

Couldn't parse this sentence in Carrère's P.K. Dick bio, had to resort to auto translation.

"Phil fit valoir d'un ton rogue qu'un imposteur réussissant à se faire passer pour un génie montrait par là plus de génie qu'un génie authentique."

Phil argued in a haughty tone that an impostor who managed to pass himself off as a genius thereby showed more genius than a genuine genius.

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