But no! That is, if you had time to think that every genius starts his working day at five in the morning, then no. Toulouse-Lautrec preferred to paint at night, and no one saw Dmitri Shostakovich at work at all: the music took shape in his head, then it only remained to write it down
But no! That is, if you had time to think that every genius starts his working day at five in the morning, then no. Toulouse-Lautrec preferred to paint at night, and no one saw Dmitri Shostakovich at work at all: the music took shape in his head, then all that remained was to write it down. And — no, not all of them were collected. “She carefully avoided any sign of discipline,” writes the biographer of Patricia Highsmith, author of The Talented Mr. Ripley. So no, you cannot conclude that you are not a genius based on the fact that you are absent-minded, lazy, have strange quirks (like Nabokov and Descartes) and bad habits (too long list). And finally — no, this book does not consist of numbers at all, but of short stories (with quotes from interviews and biographies), in which the description of everyday affairs mysteriously turns into a portrait of a person. Entertaining and informative reading — yes, yes.
Alpina Publisher, 302 p.