Black Swan

Let me say right off - when I heard this movie was coming out, I immediately thought of that recent bestselling book, "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.  I got a fair ways into the book until Talib essentially started talking about - yada yada-  how smart he is -there's a passage where he describes walking with a friend through a park, and being so caught up in their intellectual dialogue, they didn't notice it was pouring rain down on them. While absent-mindedness has a history with the intelligent - e.g. Isaac Newton himself, when once asked if he'd had lunch yet, answered that he didn't know (maybe earlier that day another falling apple had knocked him on the head).  There was  the meeting between the poet Robert Southey  and Alfred Lord Tennyson (a bit of a space cadet) where Tennyson directly asked Southey what he thought of Southey.  Those last two examples, in my mind, are endearing because they highlight a weakness in the two men. Tasib highlights strength - his intellect - and thus repels me. If he had gotten in a minor accident, such as getting hit unwittingly by a rickshaw or falling into a pond, or getting hit by lightning I might think of his book less negatively.  But what do I know?