Less starkly, his success may simply represent the passing to a new generation of the literary flame albeit, in this instance, a blowtorch.

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And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

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But overall the better material found new homes, with a new generation of collectors to carry the flame.

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Instead of the old teaching model where you have the sage on the stage, the new model is about learning from one another to create a spark that can be fanned into a flame.

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