The really interesting page I think is the related page “Mozart and scatology”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart_and_scatology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

The really interesting page I think is the related page “Mozart and scatology”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart_and_scatology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart_and_scatology I remember there was another post a while ago discussing Einstein’s racist (certainly so by modern standards) world outlook. The simple thing to realize is of course that all the so-called “great” people are also flesh-and-bone human beings with their flaws (at least judging by the mainstream morals of a particular era). The personalities of any one single human being are always complex and multi-faceted. The way Thatcher said “he couldn’t have been like that since he wrote great, refined music” is a perfect example of the denial and the (conservative) deification of people that the mainstream has deemed to have to be “immaculate”. I mean you can somehow create religious and literary figures to such effect, but if anybody seriously believes that an actual human being would be literally “god-like” in character, they have some serious reckoning with the reality to do. Fortunately most people in the modern era seem to get this, and modern art productions are also depicting characters in mostly realistic lights.