Last Days of the Polymath
By Alissa Wilkinson Posted in Blog on October 1, 2009 0 Comments 1 min read
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From More Intelligent Life: Last Days of the Polymath.

The word “polymath” teeters somewhere between Leo¬≠nardo da Vinci and Stephen Fry. Embracing both one of history’s great intellects and a brainy actor, writer, director and TV personality, it is at once presumptuous and banal. Djerassi doesn’t want much to do with it. “Nowadays people that are called polymaths are dabblers-are dabblers in many different areas,” he says. “I aspire to be an intellectual polygamist. And I deliberately use that metaphor to provoke with its sexual allusion and to point out the real difference to me between polygamy and promiscuity.”


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