--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
> > > > > > Probably Asperger's, like I think I myself might be... :) > > Really? You think you are? Someone interested mainly in "dead" languages, like Latin and Sanskrit, probably is. Of course that would depend on the criteria used, but at least according to DSM IV, I quite likely would. > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Gould > > > > My "acid test" would be how he played, if he ever did > > (which I'm "afraid" he didn't) the "trivial" Toccata and > > Fugue in D minor. > > Why would that be the "acid test," and test of what? > Whether I'd like Gould or not. At least those performances felt too "intellectual" or "detached" or something, for my taste. Rather surprisingly, Asperger's "patients" are often *more* emotional than so called normal people, but they (or us?) don't have that many shades of emotions, I guess. Why acid test? That's been my favourite piece of classical of music since I heard Karl Richter play it when I was a kid.
