They are in thrall not to John Maynard Keynes, sage of the Depression, but to his Cambridge contemporary, Frank Ramsey, a precocious polymath who made his contributions in the prelapsarian 1920s.
Juana's precocious intellect attracted attention from the royal court in Mexico City, and when she was sixteen, the viceroy and his wife took her in as their lady-in-waiting.
Mercury characterized himself as a precocious child, and at the age of 8 he was sent to boarding school in India. It was an upheaval of an upbringing, he later said of his childhood.
At times this book bears the stain of a debut: the circumstances too implausible; the kids too precocious; the similes too frequent and the album references too cool (a Facebook-ready list).
But, I love the idea that this child, this precocious, sophisticated child, stood and saw this painting, through the window of the shop and thought, " That's how I want to live." So, follow me and I'll take you upstairs.