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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;David Broom, post: 9499344, member: 19942&quot;]Many thanks. I’m definitely swinging round to the consensus view here that this is a 1974 work, and the correspondence with the Chénier opera date makes that a real possibility as the inspiration. And maybe the language on the sheets of paper is Greek, which would again tie back to Chénier. I struggle a bit with the sentiment of ‘despair of a genius’ as used in my drawing. The beginning of the text reads ‘Die Verzweiflung des Genies findet nicht die gewuenschte Anteilnahme’ which I kind of interpret as a rather self-pitying ‘Look I’m a genius in despair and I’m not getting any sympathy from you guys’ which seems a very different sentiment from the self-effacing ‘To die so young – and there was something there’ context.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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