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"I've never seen him act like this before," said Handel's servant to a friend. "He just stares at me and doesn't see me. He said the gates of heaven opened wide for him and God Himself was there. I'm afraid he's going mad." But the fruit of this "madness," of these long hours when Handel refused to eat and wrote and wrote, was the greatest oratorio written during, before, or after his century--the Messiah.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 4 : Reflections On Specific Arts > # 326