Painful Genius

Thanks to BayonneMike for pointing this out, an article from a brother in the Gout Wars.

Comforting to know, however, that I'm prolly a genius:

As late as 1926, in his book “A Study of British Genius,” Havelock Ellis was happy to confirm the connection between genius and gout. It “occurs so often,” he writes, “in such extreme forms, and in men of such pre-eminent intellectual ability, that it is impossible not to regard it as having a real association with such ability.”