Idiosyncratic traits may be fundamental or purely incidental to the sanity of an idea or its proponent. EinsteiN? had many idosyncratic traits. EinsteiN? did poorly in the authoritarian brand of math practiced at his prep school. He did not drive and could not find his way around Washington, D. C. He relied on a non-genius for that skill. He commonly forgot his belt or suspenders with the consequence that his pants would not stay up, or forgot his pants altogether. A not-indifferent violinist and very good pianist, it was not unheard of that he would play in shirt and underwear, totally absorbed in the music and oblivious to the world around him. His letters show a brilliant gift for prose, and he declared that a grasp of language was indispensible.
We would be remiss to mention that not only brilliant geniuses have idiosyncracies; blithering idiots quite frequently do as well.
...as would be implicit in my remark that idiosyncracy may be fundamental or incidental to the SanitY? of an idea...
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