relationship. Chopin would peck out impromptu tunes on the piano while Sand wrote “To keep herself to her desk and to enable her to write with more care, she would ask her lover to improvise on the piano, and thus, inspired by his playing, she produced her best novels” (Karasowski 343-344). Yet, like their personalities, their work habits were literally night and day apart “Both worked steadily, but followed quite different routines, Chopin retiring early, while Sand worked through the night. His annual pattern developed a rhythm which Sand had, to some extent, to follow also if she was to be
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