[cousin_it]

Could great works substitute for having a scene? After all, writers have been inspired by Dostoevsky without being part of the same scene as him, and often without being part of a scene at all.

[helloplanets]

Which great writers are you thinking of here? True outsider art is very rare afaik.

[bravura]

Close contact between exceptional individuals is one of the main values of having a scene.