#genius

#genius

Bettany, who plays Salieri with the kind of simmering resentment that could curdle wine, pointed out that the original stage play mostly lived inside Salieri's head. 'The play is very much from Salieri's point of view,' he says, before explaining how the series opens things up to show 'what the burden of genius was on Mozart.'

In his lectures, Fichte characterized genius as 'divine' and madness as 'animal,' but Schopenhauer, who was no stranger to mental illness, suspected the two to be intertwined.

"When Paul Morphy plays seven games of chess at once and blindfold, when young Colburn gives impromptu solution to a mathematical problem involving fifty-six figures, we are struck with hopeless wonder," J. Brownlee Brown wrote in 1864.