And those whom it touches are the truly blessed. Oh, sure, there are exceptions, people destroyed by their talent but even then the rest of mankind often benefits from it, from what destroyed the person who possessed it. You never know where it will light. It might be carried in some inherited genes. But just as often, not.
Talent is just there.
It is where it is. I've known there was such a show for years. I paid it no heed. Well, I'm an idiot. For thinking that someone like me, born on the river, a writer, someone drawn back from many years in New York to live again in the river town - for thinking that I could ever have had my allotted fill of Twain.