To St Paul's Cathedral tonight for a performance of Handel's "Messiah". Plenty of time to contemplate three things:
1. Christopher Wren was one of the few - if not the only - architects to design a cathedral and then live to see it finished.
2. Handel wrote his masterpiece in three weeks.
3. What did people like that do in their spare time?
I've often wondered the same thing. Brian Wilson wrote God Only Knows in an hour, which I find inspiring on one level and totally dispiriting in terms of ever personally producing something of worth.
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