>read biography of an artist >they aren't as

>>9871894
Thats why we need to learn that people arent the heros we usualy think they are.
They have their flaws, the same way we have ours. Is our common mistake to look up to people religiously.

The greats are all greatly exaggerated.

>>9871934
>>9871952
Except for that one guy...

>>9871958
because we dont know enough about him

>>9871958
Ezra Pound

>>9871961
Nah he was pretty great, bro.

>>9871965
he was a collective of people writing under one name tho

>>9871894
>read biography of opera librettists
>it's American Pie level of juvenile nonsense

Late XVIII century librettists were all crazy nymphomaniac junkie libertines

>>9872180
>opera librettists
examples?

>>9871958
'dolf Hitlah?

>>9871894
> read biography of jazz musician
> they end up being so much cooler than their music would suggest
> tfw Miles Davis is a cool motherfucker

>cool

You fag

>read Beethoven's biography
>in his later years he was way crazier than you thought
>tfw he was always dirty, and he would spy people from their windows costantly, yell as he was walking around the city and throw lethal objects at other people for no reason

The absolute madman.