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    1. While Billy sits quiet and still amid the heavy metal sounds of the custody suite, his companions reach out and take his hands in theirs and the three of them begin to mime and mug like savant idiots, and with the sound turned down, with the picture fading to a single white dot, they start to belt out Billy’s favourite song without shifting a single molecule of air:


    2. borders of savant though, diversified and adapted itself


    3. Admittedly, I’m no political savant, but I figured that a seedy city with various


    4. Maybe Kaufmann is some kind of rock & roll savant


    5. If music was involved, this followed the precise original tempo; the full score of which the patients would be able to hum with total accuracy — much as an autistic savant would be able to reproduce music with a high accuracy — almost like a recording machine


    6. The term savant dates from the late 19th century, when a small number of people in European asylums classified as feebleminded ‘idiots’ were discovered paradoxically to have extraordinary, even uncanny skills


    7. Savant syndrome itself is rare


    8. The rarest of the rare is the prodigious savant, like Raymond Babbitt (portrayed in the movie ‘Rain Man’) who could memorize phone books, count 246 toothpicks at a glance, and trump the house in Vegas


    9. Savant artists draw with exceptional accuracy, he says, because ‘they see the world as it really is


    10. An alternative explanation is that savant skills are largely innate, requiring little or no practice

    11. 5 Hertz or 1 Hertz over the left fronto-temporal lobe of 11 healthy participants — an area of the brain implicated in the savant syndrome, both in the case of ‘born savants’ and savants who emerged later in life due to fronto-temporal lobe dementia


    12. However, the savant has not revealed unknown or unexpected mechanisms in the case of drawing or perfect pitch, according to Snyder


    13. The savant Astreas, traveling in the East in his never-tiring search for knowledge, wrote a letter to his friend and fellow-philosopher Alcemides, in his native Nemedia, which constitutes the entire knowledge of the Western nations concerning the events of that period in the East, always a hazy, half-mythical region in the minds of the Western folk


    14. But the savant was incorrect in his conjecture concerning the whereabouts of the woman he called Taramis


    15. Wait for the Savant


    16. Another savant was flown over New York City for about 30 minutes and was able to draw portions of the city with the windows, buildings, etc


    17. In her last year, a German savant of sixty, an exceedingly bright light in the firmament of European learning, came to Oxford and was fêted


    18. Another had done all this; why, then, was it impossible to Dantes? Faria had dug his way through fifty feet, Dantes would dig a hundred; Faria, at the age of fifty, had devoted three years to the task; he, who was but half as old, would sacrifice six; Faria, a priest and savant, had not shrunk from the idea of risking his life by trying to swim a distance of three miles to one of the islands—Daume, Rattonneau, or Lemaire; should a hardy sailer, an experienced diver, like himself, shrink from a similar task; fetch up the bright coral branch, hesitate to entertain the same project? He could do it in an should he, who had so often for mere amusement's sake plunged to the bottom of the sea to hour, and how many times had he, for pure pastime, continued in the water for more than twice as long! At once Dantes resolved to follow the brave example of his energetic companion, and to remember that what has once been done may be done again


    19. As the father of an autistic son Balder had long suspected that many parents hoped the notion of a savant would be their consolation prize to make up for a diagnosis of cognitive deficiencies


    20. According to a common estimate, only one in ten children with autism has some kind of savant gift, and for the most part these talents, though they often entail a fantastic memory and observation of detail, are not as startling as those depicted in films

    21. He got out his laptop and went on Google to learn more about savant skills


    22. Despite Grane’s warning he kept surfing and soon came upon the name of a professor of neurology, an expert on savant syndrome called Charles Edelman


    23. All research shows that speech development actually enhances savant abilities


    24. “Because it is extremely rare in a savant for artistic ability to be combined with mathematical talent


    25. Bublanski had been trying to reach him ever since he realized that the boy was a savant


    26. Salander quickly checked who Edelman was, and when she saw that his specialism was savant skills she understood straight away what was going on


    27. The reason being that it is recognized in literature on the subject that the presence of the mother has a positive effect on children with savant skills


    28. She developed a passionate interest in savant syndrome, and when Charles was staying at the hotel they often sat up after August had gone to bed and talked into the small hours about her son’s abilities, and about everything else too


    29. His conversation, I remember, was about the Bertillon system of measurements, and he expressed his enthusiastic admiration of the French savant


    30. On the way he thought no more of money, but mused on the introduction that awaited him to the Petersburg savant, a writer on sociology, and what he would say to him about his book

    31. There are skills that may translate from gamer, star athlete, math savant, and academic honors to CPT, but they are not as important or as vast as many believe


    32. Someone else rumpled my hair, the hair of the idiot savant


    33. "Does idiot savant sound right?"


    34. —"Why, what!" exclaimed the Minister, "I should think so! An old savant! a botanist! an inoffensive man! Something must be done for him!" On the following day, M


    35. “He must be a savant,” answered Alyosha; “but I confess I can't tell you much about him, either


    36. I've heard of him as a savant, but what sort I don't know


    37. Blanche were still exchanging looks; while of the Prince and the German savant I lost sight at the end of the Avenue, where they had turned back and left us


    38. She announced, for example, in the course of conversation, that she had never heard of Stepan Trofimovitch as a leading man or a savant


    39. Even the greatest artist or savant or benefactor of the human race would at that time have won from me no respect if he had not also been “comme il faut


    40. ] a coachbuilder, a soldier, a savant, or anything useful, so long only as he was “comme il faut “—that by attaining the latter quality he had done all that was demanded of him, and was even superior to most people

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