Theos-Talk Archives (April 1996 Message tl00139)

Alex,
It's actually quite easy to explain.  Very often genius manifests itself in
extremes, a person may be an absolutly brilliant artist and a child molester
(Gauguin), or a great composer and a nut (Wagner).  When there is that much
energy pent up in the soul it rushes to find an outlet and often, driven by
that force, the genius does not see where it is taking him.
The only exception to this seem to be physicists and most mathematicians,
possibly because their work is so all-absorbing that it leaves no time for
anything else.

Chuck the Barbarian MTI, FTSA
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