The weekend read: Why do we want genius to be mad?

The weekend read: Why do we want genius to be mad?

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norman lebrecht

December 05, 2014

Dr Judith Schlesinger asks: What useful purpose does it serve to insist that our greatest creative minds must be somehow damaged and disturbed, particularly when there is no real evidence for it?

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