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and particularly the Mozart sketches
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you will see that he fills the margins oftentimes with numbers,
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doing various basic calculations
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and sometimes some fundamental algebraic formulations.
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Why this fascination with numbers and shapes and patterns?
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He would go into a restaurant and he would be seen folding his napkin
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this way,this way, this way.
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When he writes letters he oftentimes writes the word backwards.
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He loves anagrams
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and I could give you lots of specific instances of that.
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Another aspect of this is Mozart the mimic.
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Mozart had an incredible capacity to imitate other individuals--