To the enfant terrible, hierarchies appeared to be maintained through fakery, fear, cowardice, and manipulation not through truth, genius, and honesty. An enfant terrible is best characterized by French poet, Arthur Rimbaud, who after listening to a shitty writer at a dinner party, ends up saying this:
"In the days of Francois, wise and benevolent giants roamed the countryside and one of their primary functions was to rid the world of pedants, fools and writers of no talent, by pissing on them from a great height."
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Many of you may not know who Arthur Rimbaud is. He basically revolutionized French literature at a very young age, 17 to be exact.
"Rimbaud's poetry, as well as his life, influenced many 20th-century writers, musicians and artists, including André Breton, Pablo Picasso, Dylan Thomas, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, Jack Kerouac, Vladimir Nabokov, Bob Dylan, Luis Alberto Spinetta, D. A. Powell, Patti Smith, La Liga del Sueño, Giannina Braschi, Léo Ferré,[81] Henry Miller, Van Morrison, Penny Rimbaud, Jim Morrison,[78] Richey Edwards and Roberto Vecchioni. -Wikipedia
He was a genius. An enfant terrible.