from @dekkarios. ❝ they say madness and genius are separated by but a hair’s breadth. perhaps the same is true of madness and stupidity. ❞ ( bg3 starters. )
" i'd say that depends on one's definition of madness — and are those three things not in many ways the same ? " a knowing smile spreads across her lips. " where an acolyte may call me a genius in the ways i show my devotion to my goddess, the faithless may call me stupid for the very same — though both may call me mad and i can't say i could refute either of them.
" and you, my friend. you are a genius for your ambition to some and stupid beyond belief to others, though those of both opinions likely believe you mad. all walk the same line, and which words you choose to use are solely perspective. madness is simply what we call what we don't understand, what we can't fathom ourselves thinking. if you like it then it's genius. if you don't, then it's stupidity.
" so in that way — " light laughter breaks up her verbal train of thought, " — you're right, aren't you ? they aren't more than a hair apart. "