Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
“Martin-slow, clumsy-was loved by his father, and passionately loved him in return; and their love was cemented by their shared love for music.
The great sorrow of Martin's life was that he could not follow his father, and be a famous opera and oratorio singer like him- but this was not an obsession, and he found, and gave, much pleasure with what he could do. He was consulted, even by the famous, for his remarkable memory, which extended beyond the music itself to all the details of perf...ormance. He enjoyed a modest fame as a 'walking encyclopedia', who knew not only the music of two thousand operas, but all the singers who had taken the roles in countless performances, and all the details of scenery, staging, dress and decor. (He also prided himself on a street-by-street, house-by-house, knowledge of New York-and knowing the routes of all its buses and trains.) Thus, he was an opera-buff, and something of an 'idiot savant' too. He took a certain child-like pleasure in all this-the pleasure of such eidetics and freaks.MoreLess
The great sorrow of Martin's life was that he could not follow his father, and be a famous opera and oratorio singer like him- but this was not an obsession, and he found, and gave, much pleasure with what he could do. He was consulted, even by the famous, for his remarkable memory, which extended beyond the music itself to all the details of perf...ormance. He enjoyed a modest fame as a 'walking encyclopedia', who knew not only the music of two thousand operas, but all the singers who had taken the roles in countless performances, and all the details of scenery, staging, dress and decor. (He also prided himself on a street-by-street, house-by-house, knowledge of New York-and knowing the routes of all its buses and trains.) Thus, he was an opera-buff, and something of an 'idiot savant' too. He took a certain child-like pleasure in all this-the pleasure of such eidetics and freaks.MoreLess
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