February 2011
What Do We Learn When We Diagnose Genius? →
youmightfindyourself:
In her Histoire de Ma Vie, the author George Sand describes an encounter with Frédéric Chopin upon returning one night from a trip to Palma. Chopin was playing a melody on the piano, in the grip of a strange delirium. “He saw himself drowned in a lake,” she wrote:
heavy and ice-cold drops of water fell at regular intervals upon his breast, and when I drew his attention to...
