| Show Archimedes was so absentminded that he would do the most unconventional unconven-tional things without a thought of their impropriety The story of his running through the streets in a nude condition is too well known to need repetition George Sand in the recollections of her early days states that more than once she meditated suicide To the close of her life she never saw a precipice preci-pice or a body of water without a momentary mo-mentary impulse to selfdestruction Handel was a stupendous egotist When the musical correctness of a passage pas-sage he had written was doubted he said When I write anything < that makes it right He was once under restraint for insanity caused by business busi-ness troubles The crazy Italian theologian Paoletti wrote a book to prove that the North American Indians were the direct descendants de-scendants of Satan and erie of Noahs daughters and that consequently they were incapable of repentance or salvation salva-tion Benvenuto Cellini tells in his memoirs mem-oirs of his hallucinations On one occasion occa-sion he visited the Coliseum which he found lighted with a great globe of fire and filled with demons who conversed with him as long as they could induce him to stay Mohammed was an epileptic He would remain unconscious for hours when one of the paroxysms came on and r when revived would give an account ac-count of the marvelous visions that he beheld while his body was lying motionless mo-tionless and apparently dead i e b tI 4 JF 3 < < t i n < < |
