Writing | Li Shuangxian
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Before answering this question, let’s first look at a long list of gleaming names:
Explorer Columbus, musician Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, dictator Henry VIII, Hitler, Napoleon, former US President John F. Kennedy, Lincoln, Russia’s first Tsar Ivan IV, painter Van Gogh, Wenhao Shakespeare, philosopher madman Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, writer Tolstoy, Flaubert and his disciple Maupassant, nephew A Bing, Dangdang Li Guoqing……
This is just a short break from the list of celebrities who have historically suffered from syphilis.
Before penicillin and classic hallucinogens have not been discovered by humans, syphilis indirectly stimulates art by its way of spreading intimately, with a rhythmic pattern of episodes and late-religious hallucinogenic side effects. Rewrite history.
Van Gogh cuts his left ear, Nietzsche hugs the horse, Hitler kills the Nazis, Ivan IV horrible bloodthirsty…, these historical celebrities show hysteria, madness and brutality, all of which may be related to the spirit caused by syphilis complications The problem is related.
However, syphilis genetically produces idiots, madness, and disability, but it is said to also stimulate genius (from: Qian Zhongshu, “The Besieged City”) Span>.
Beethoven, who was regarded as an inspirational model in the elementary school textbook, created the Symphony of Destiny after he was deaf–only the textbooks did not have the heart to tell the children that Beethoven’s hearing was taken away by syphilis. “Ode to Joy” was written in the illusion of temperament caused by the late syphilis and has unique artistic value.
The dissatisfaction of another composer, Schubert, after his childhood infection with syphilis was directly reflected in his melancholy romantic music.
And there is a porter who shouts “We are democratic and syphilis.” The theme of “Flower of Evil” is full of “fallen beauty”, which was interpreted by the critics at that time as “the flower of syphilis”.
And because of the general poverty, can not afford professional models, in the middle