Goethe once said that Voltaire had ended an old era, while Rousseau had begun a new one.
Yet Jean-Jacques Rousseau, so highly praised by great men and philosophers alike, had once made a living copying sheet music.
Without that livelihood, how else could he have supported himself in France at the time?
Among the many scores in Giovanni's collection, Pomona found sheet music copied by Rousseau. It had been kept in a special bag, and it was probably worth quite a bit now.
Besides that, she also found scores copied by Wagner, as well as Ludwig II's sketches of Neuschwanstein Castle.
Giovanni had failed in his bid to rebuild the Paris Opera, and afterward he left France for Germany.
In a garden in Berchtesgaden, he saved the little fairy-tale king, who had nearly been attacked by an Erkling.
According to the vampire Giovanni, Ludwig II had been very willful. In truth, men were more or less all like him; they all had moments when they refused to grow up.
Giovanni could not stand the smell of garlic, but Simeon ate it. Because of that, the two could not stay in the same room.
Sometimes feelings were that simple. If Severus had come to kiss her that Christmas with a mouth full of garlic, Pomona would not have "felt" anything either.
Fortunately, he had been clever enough to drink a vial of Cheering Potion before knocking on her door, arriving to see her with mint on his breath.
But now, he was married. Garlic-flavored dishes tasted very good, and he ate quite a few of those garlic meatballs. She still remembered McLaggen vomiting all over him after eating one meatball, for which he had been punished with a month of detention.
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