Perhaps my favorite of these stories: the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein published the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus in 1921, upon which he declared all of philosophy was solved and spent the next twenty-five years teaching school children in rural Austria and obsessively building a house. The musician known as Captain Beefheart changed the face of American rock-and-roll with his uncompromising music until 1982, when he declared he was “too good at the horn” and permanently retired to pursue painting. David Lynch quit moviemaking after 2006’s ambitious Inland Empire, even though he continued to produce work in a variety of different media. Harper Lee famously only ever published To Kill A Mockingbird, although she continued to be an active presence in the literary world. Sometimes you encounter a work so monumental that the only appropriate follow-up on behalf of its creator is to never produce anything within that medium ever again, even if they might remain active in other fields.
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