Henry Fuseli

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Growing up, I admired David Letterman, Norm Macdonald, Clive Barker, Joseph Campbell, painters like Fuseli and Bausch.

There were so many great influences, right? Inside the NBA is probably my favorite TV show right now, and I'm not even a fan of the NBA.

A big reason is Ernie Johnson.

Let me show you this.

This is Henry Fuseli.

It's called The Nightmare.

And you can see it there.

The romantic and chivalrous principle of the love of personal fame is embodied in the finest possible manner in the character of Falkland.

Footnote B. Mr. Fuseli used to object to this striking delineation a want of historical correctness, inasmuch as the animating principle of the true chivalrous character was the sense of honor, not the mere regard to or saving of appearances.

This, we think, must be a hypercriticism from all we remember of books of chivalry and heroes of romance.

End of footnote.

He understood in its perfection the great art of throwing the onus probandi on his adversary, and so could maintain almost any opinion, however absurd or fantastical, with fearless impunity.

I have heard a sensible and well-informed man say that he never was in company with Mr. Tooke without being delighted and surprised, or without feeling the conversation of every other person to be flat in the comparison, but that he did not recollect having ever heard him make a remark that struck him as a sound and true one, or that he himself appeared to think so.

He used to plague Fuseli by asking him after the origin of the Teutonic dialects, and Dr. Parr by wishing to know the meaning of the common copulative is.

Once at G's he defended Pitt from a charge of verbiage, and endeavoured to prove him superior to Fox.

The romantic and chivalrous principle of the love of personal fame is embodied in the finest possible manner in the character of Falkland.

Footnote B. Mr. Fuseli used to object to this striking delineation a want of historical correctness, inasmuch as the animating principle of the true chivalrous character was a sense of honor, not the mere regard to or saving of appearances.

This, we think, must be a hypercriticism from all we remember of books of chivalry and heroes of romance.

End of footnote.

He understood in its perfection the great art of throwing the onus probandi on his adversary, and so could maintain almost any opinion, however absurd or fantastical, with fearless impunity.

I have heard a sensible and well-informed man say that he never was in company with Mr. Duke without being delighted and surprised, or without feeling the conversation of every other person to be flat in the comparison, but that he did not recollect having ever heard him make a remark that struck him as a sound and true one, or that he himself appeared to think so.

He used to plague Fuseli by asking him after the origin of the Teutonic dialects, and Dr. Parr by wishing to know the meaning of the common copulative is.

Once at G's he defended Pitt from a charge of verbiage and endeavoured to prove him superior to Fox.

Since humans have been writing stories and making art, they've been preoccupied with sleep.

Stories like Rip Van Winkle and Sleeping Beauty, art like the 1781 oil painting The Nightmare, Henry Fuseli's depiction of a sleeping woman with a squatting incubus on her chest choking her dreams, and one of my favorite Beatles tracks, I'm So Tired.

Now, some of us wake in the morning to our tech giving us sleep scores as we track our REM sleep and our deep sleep like scientists.

Essentially, we're obsessed with sleep, so why can't we get it right? Now, I want to unlock its mysteries and maybe get a good night's sleep in the process.

And then with Will, the first engraved image he did, I think it was this one, which we were trying to copy the...

There's this famous painting called The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli.

Yeah.

I don't know if I'm saying his name correctly, but that painting's pretty similar to this.

Ooh.

And it's by Henry Fuseli.

Look at that.

And we'll put it on the, uh-