| Show GENIUS OK LNMAINITY tHE FADS AND PECULIARITIES OF WRITERS AND COMPOSERS Innllbl W3 ur 0111111 h 14111intelmTolhiC 711ifilis 1 Thus I AlW brns Intsrrectly lcmardq as mental Ab no M ii not an osyniittcr to try to draw tun frontier line Insanity Although crtlu ycbologUti basing their opm 1011 all tile physical ollownlie Bud ov itrieitus of mind observed in men ot genius claim with apparent reason that genius and IIIuolly me ilia satue thing It Is 1 iolng to t excess to Consider writers unit nrtiFt insai In whnm queer traits and little manias appear In this rcsjiect Lombroso Unit his dim I pIe have gone too far their lulrnry being to mnko no distinction between gcoln anti talent Uoniu IS f on lIuomnl but Sill OVOIII nly that the whole world Is satlflied to admire It Is constituted by the can eroletl development of a single faculty Usually ut tile expellee of tho others This is the cioso of tho imperfections or these brilliant meteors und tile explana 11011 of their degeneracy en other points Iseentiilly spontaneous and original gOlllu is I u natural phenomenon wo iiinot explain although It Is nlllloeH tionably lie result of natural causep Talent is diffeunt It is tile fiult ef work and sustained application and It can Lo acquIred and do eloped at any time At tile present tiny for Instinct there are Law win or genius among pointers and yet they almost all bvo talent Tho consequence Is I that the grouter number nf the Hinting in our exhibitions lira pleasing to us although 110 exceptional work fills us with udmi ritlou and reveals u punter of genius Actions therefore In nppo irauee extraordinary ex-traordinary do not warrant us in inferring infer-ring Insiiiity on the part of those who ompUh them especially no there DO 1100110 everabnormal they may seLin nt first are often very rational and justifiable jus-tifiable Thus In order to bo able to mcditntt nt their coo many writers insist 00 nol being disturbed by anything and Seek elation Mlalgoo Ili his uomelli uf inplIou used to run out or hie house and ru anti shut himself up in an old Lower into which 110 0110 Jo enter 1 Jean Jacques Heooollu Used 10 nieditato in the fields whilo gathering lowers In tire huusbiiio In order 10 shut out tile noio of the world ho liked to bury himroie in the hay or close his I ears with cotton Others con only compost < with succem i in tile midst of tnumlts Tho celebrated Italian composer Cimarosa was of thin number unit only found tile nuruolh of his opera In tho midst of Iho joy and noUo of tho crowd Such was also tho piofcmrar of wboUl Telix lit goault says that ho could only lecture in Ibo midst tif a great rnclet When his scholars wished to I manifest against him they kept nbololo silence ni under such conditions ho wo face pablo of making uu addition even Just as noiso stimulates tho brain 1 or Folue notion quickens the circulation of others whence tho largo number of persons who can only compoko while exercising Ampere could not explain clearly even tile things ho know best unless tho action of his brain was helped by exercise Victor HIIRO while composing com-posing walked about muttering to hIm sell In one day many writers prefer to t walk Catnllo blondes walks up nod down and then writes lib dk l Join Lombard the well known writer who died 11 few years ago walked a great deal Mistral Ibo Provencal poet composes com-poses while walking On the other hand certain writers avoid all motion probably on account of their Weak constitutiong and In order stimulate tho brain circulation pul themselves 11 horizontal position 1 > ore or-e Descartes who nell to 111 down motionless nnd Cnjaa who onld only work I profitably lying on his stoic ach on tile carpet A Whole class of writers Theophilt Gantier Baudelaire Irancois Coppce find bcacoml require tlio proeeuco or cats to Write Hitler used to have oman o-man as 12 or 15 Leon Cladil writes in wooden shoes in the society of hh dog In n garret At intervals ho takes his dog off for n wait Intellectual stimulants are largely used among which ce flea Is I n great facile fa-cile Lortzing drank bowls of while composing hiamelotllen nnd Balzac used it to great excess Do Mussel Poe Ver laiuo and many others irefcrred alcoliol whilo bchnbcit wroto his beautifuL so notes ruder tho iuflnencoof largo Iou Who nf nnino wine tobacco Emoko is i also much infect laubcrt could not write n word uulll ho had Smoked three or four largo pipes and half n dozen > cry strong cigirs Danelct smokes enormously Cutul Mondes tmoktd eitara While writing and often has limo or four going at the same timo through abbcutmlntledness Pcifumcs veto hl appreciated by Baudehlrc Thfophlleliantier Loll nod Mulzeroy Byron couldnt writa will ont having tho odor cf trnflloii about him and frequently carried < his lockets full of them Cooper acted on his tense of taste by filling his month with 1I01l0y tablets and Email places of licorim Carolus Huron tend Almo MarDI worked thelnhghcs up before ialnting by play Ing tho piano md organ Darwin pro erred the violin The Elngolaiilm queer traits and even mamas to wlnih 1 IIIHO just called attention In writ rs and nrlisU are If ono reflect generally explicable Nd doubt u > mii of them litray nervous con lliion that is i on tile limits of 11Ilnl derangement but nsurnlu they tire aim i file pccull iritiCH who i Importance Is I xnifRuritiiloun e m t lie th ruffle position po-sition otha writer lIod would 1 not justi Iylll any een0o th t rm inmnltywhich for this rrawts lranl ro o old like lu attnbnte to mi u ot rL at tuli nt Parii Herald |
