The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places From Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley (66 page)

homospacial,
165
–66

humor and,
87
–88

Janusian,
152
–53

tea and,
65
–66,
91

Vienna and,
279
–80

walking and,
21
–22,
58
–59,
166

Thompson, William,
26

Thucydides,
26
,
43
,
56
–58,
150
,
288

exile of,
53
,
60
,
80

Thun, Countess,
239

Tobias and the Angel
(Verrocchio),
112

tolerance,
171
–72

Tony (hotelier),
15
–17,
20
,
49
,
58

Tony’s Hotel,
15
,
20
,
32
,
50
,
56
,
58
–59,
61

Torricelli, Evangelista,
129

Tourist Problem,
257

“Toward a Hindu Theory of Creativity” (Hallman),
202
–3

T.P.,
185
–87,
201

“Tradition and the Individual Talent” (Eliot),
86

train travel,
174
–76

“Traveling at Night and Looking at the Stars” (Su),
75

Travels of Marco Polo, The
(Polo),
71
–73,
96

Treatise of Human Nature, A
(Hume),
154

trephine,
147

Trotsky, Leon,
259

Twain, Mark,
21
,
39
,
52
,
57
,
194

Uffizi Gallery,
97
,
99
,
107

unintended consequences, law of,
128
,
130
,
290
,
299

Valéry, Paul,
23
–24,
163

Vasari, Giorgio,
112
,
131

Venice,
71
–72,
98
,
295

Ventris, Michael,
266

venture capitalists,
295
,
297
–98,
308
–12

Verrocchio, Andrea del:

comparisons between Haydn and,
244
–45

Leonardo and,
109
,
112
–14,
245
,
310

workshop of,
107
–10,
112
–14,
168
,
180
,
310

Vidal, Gore,
199

Vienna,
9
,
71
,
226
–39,
251
–67,
276
–85

architecture and,
218
,
252
,
263
,
282
–83

Athens and,
220
,
251
,
279

audiences in,
246
–49,
309
,
312

cafés and,
15
,
229
,
243
,
252
–57,
259
–60,
263
,
277
–81,
284
,
325

demise of,
284
,
315
,
317

Edinburgh and,
259
,
279

ethnic diversity of,
256
–57

Florence and,
220
–21,
226
,
251
,
279

Freud and,
15
,
82
,
217
–18,
229
,
249
,
252
,
260
–67,
269
–70,
272
–74,
276
–78,
281
,
283

Friederike and,
232
–35,
238

Jews and,
252
,
262
–63,
265
–66,
276
–79

music and,
217
–23,
226
–27,
229
–34,
236
–39,
241
–49,
252
,
256
,
259
,
277
,
281
,
284
,
309
,
312

Ringstrasse of,
251
–52,
260
–61,
263
,
276
,
283

Silicon Valley and,
303
,
309
,
312
,
315

social dynamic of,
258
–59

weather in,
233
,
238
–39,
260
,
276
,
284

Vienna Academy of Fine Arts,
279

Vivekananda, Swami,
188

Vohs, Kathleen,
230

Voltaire,
114
,
138
,
240

von Fange, Eugene,
315
–16

Waldrop, M. Mitchell,
201

Waldstein, Count,
245

Walker, Paul,
127

walking,
214

Athens and,
166
,
194

Greece and,
21
–22,
32
,
43
,
58
–59,
61
–62

Walpole, Horace,
209

Walt Disney Studios,
293

Warhol, Andy,
69
,
73
,
95

water clocks,
28
,
31
,
37

Watson, James,
25
–26

Watt, James,
142
,
144
,
163
,
176

Watts, Alan,
75
–76,
117

weak ties,
302
–4

Wednesday Circle,
275

West Lake (Xi Hu),
71
–72,
74
,
77
,
87
,
92
,
94
,
193

Whorf, Benjamin,
53

wine,
72
,
75
,
113
,
173
,
235
,
262

Edinburgh and,
152
,
155
,
174

Florence and,
108
,
112
,
114
–15,
136

Glasgow and,
176
,
180

Greece and,
14
,
18
–19,
32
,
34
,
36
,
38
,
40
,
47
–48,
62
,
212

Scotland and,
177
,
180

Vienna and,
238
–39,
241

Wood, Ron,
193

World of Yesterday, The
(Zweig),
253

World War I,
280
,
284
–85,
290

World War II,
241
,
295

Wozniak, Steve,
304
–6

writers,
23
–24,
38
,
50
–51,
74
,
80
,
116
,
129
,
150
,
157
,
164
–66,
171
,
209
,
236