Another Way To Breathe

So, you have written Leonardo and Michelangelo. Do you have any interest in writing the third Musketeer? Raphael was pretty interesting, and quite the fun guy.

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Whenever anyone mentions Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael at the same time, I remember a conversation I had in a bar in the early 00s. It was when I was a games journalist, on a press trip, and with the brother of one of the developers who was a Washington DC person. He was the same guy who told me about WoW’s impact in Washington as a digital golf game.
Anyway, he shared the theory that Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael were the three basic archetypes for creative people.
Michelangelo: the idea of the artist as serious communication with truth or god or whatever you care to call it. It’s all incredibly serious, and he’ll put every bit of him into something. Sweat, blood, tears, sheer torture.
Leonardo: the idea of artist as Mercurial genius. He’s flightly. He moves from idea to idea as it takes his fancy, leaving behind a bunch of half completed things. In a real way, a flip of Michelangelo - nothing individually is taken that seriously.
Raphael: Nice guy. Paints pretty pictures. Not a lot going on upstairs.
This still makes me smile.
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