just not enough

Mitchell's academic record was good, extremely good. Excellent. But the arc wasn't there. The arc was something Turner had learned to look for in the dossiers of research people, that certain signal curve of brilliance. He could spot the arc the way a master machinist could identify metals by observing the spark plume off a grinding wheel. And Mitchell hadn't had it. - William Gibson, Count Zero

Eh, whatever. I'm quite content with this comfortable little niche I've carved out for myself.

Dow Jones & The Industrials - Ain't Good Enough (from the Hoosier Hysteria split LP, 1980) - There ain't nothing inadequate about this slice of art-damaged Indiana punk rawk.