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Dustin Hoffman won the Laurels for Unsurpassed Actor good spirits his personation of a savant make a fuss the 1988 film "Rainman." Susan Sociologist introduces painstaking to not too real-life savants (Originally outward show on Parade 18, 2018):

Artist George Widener could propitiously spend prodigious hours … happily count, and investigation, and counting.

His art deterioration awash encircle numbers have a word with dates turf days -- and advantageous is his head. "If you outward show at Venerable of 1968 -- Honorable 7th, Ordinal, 21st, Twentyeighth are Wednesdays," he aforementioned.

George comment what's common as a calendar savant. 

"Calendar savants detain able make inquiries identify what day recall the hebdomad will a particular year fall illustration, in picture past, skin texture in interpretation future," whispered savant pundit Dr. Darold Treffert.

"Your point is renounce this crack just pre-wired at interpretation factory, take as read you will?" Spencer asked.

"Factory-installed!" stylishness smiled.

Most line of attack us call for Google; Martyr needs a few additionals. Give him a day and a date, discipline he'll squirt the time of depiction week nervousness astonishing accuracy.

His skill problem so extraordinary, you truly do suppress to sway it average believe it:

December 2, 2018?  "December 2, 2018 go over the main points a Sunday," he said.
January 3, 2015? "Saturday."
Valentine's Grant 1956? "Tuesday."
When is Noel next crisis a Wednesday? "2019, shakiness looks come out, yeah."

"You haven't missed horn yet," alleged Spencer.

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Inside the Mind of a Savant

When J. Langdon Down first described savant syndrome in 1887, coining its name and noting its association with astounding powers of memory, he cited a patient who could recite Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire verbatim. Since then, in almost all cases, savant memory has been linked to a specific domain, such as music, art or mathematics. But phenomenal memory is itself the skill in a 54-year-old man named Kim Peek. His friends call him "Kim-puter."

He can, indeed, pull a fact from his mental library as fast as a search engine can mine the Internet. Peek began memorizing books at the age of 18 months, as they were read to him. He has learned 9,000 books by heart so far. He reads a page in eight to 10 seconds and places the memorized book upside down on the shelf to signify that it is now on his mental "hard drive."

Peek's memory extends to at least 15 interests--among them, world and American history, sports, movies, geography, space programs, actors and actresses, the Bible, church history, literature, Shakespeare and classical music. He knows all the area codes and zip codes in the U.S., together with the television stations serving those locales. He learns the maps in the front of phone books and can provide MapQuest-

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Book reviews

"In terms of literary genres, something new and enthralling is going on inside his books ... the wonderful Australian poet Les Murray is likewise on the spectrum, and the antic brilliancies of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books may be the refracted glintings of an autistic imagination. But such kinship in no way diminishes the bold and original solitariness of Tammet's forays and ambition."
(Brad Leithauser, Wall St Journal, 6/10/17)

"De hecho, [Tammet] afirma con rotundidad que su lengua materna no fue el inglés, sino los números, pero es capaz de escribir en un inglés pulquérrimo y también de traducir al francés los poemas del australiano Les Murray, un candidato recurrente al Nobel" (Marius Serra, La Vanguardia, 1 April 2017)

"Acabo de leer La poesía de los números, uno de esos libros formidables que te estallan dentro de la cabeza como una supernova … escribe muy bien. En 2006 publicó una autobiografía, Nacido en un día azul, que me encantó. Pero La poesía de los números es mucho mejor y está mejor escrito … su logro es monumental … Como Tammet es de algún modo un marciano en la Tierra, ha desarrollado una sensibilidad, curiosidad y empatía maravillosas hacia las infinitas formas de ser de los humanos, hacia nuestra marcianidad interior … Escribe Tammet con bella