#oh those romantics

[rosesutherlandwrites]

Oh boy. I haven’t even gotten past the biographical notes of this book and I am already having a ball?”...Théophile Gautier, more enamored of freedom than of work, or preferring the task of making two harmonious rhymes to all the beauties of his learned and rhythmic prose, incessantly abandoned and resumed the promised work...” And goes on how his father would lock him in until he finished a daily page quota, and he would escape out the window on the regular?

Thanks for the rec, @pilferingapples