I've always found his work to be unreadable (for my tastes) but extremely fascinating. Sort of like listening to a song that I can appreciate for the genius-lev

I've always found his work to be unreadable (for my tastes) but extremely fascinating. Sort of like listening to a song that I can appreciate for the genius-level composition, but is just not-- for me-- all that enjoyable to listen to. I am happy that the work is out there and that other people enjoy it and appreciate it much more than I do, and at the same time relieved that I'm not enrolled in a literature course that requires me to plow through the material myself. I feel like there should be a word for this. (Maybe one of those obscure German words?) A word for the complete intellectual appreciation of an accomplishment or creation that I myself want nothing to do with beyond the gratification of knowing it exists. There really should be a word for this.