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about virtually everything.
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He was the classic kind of know-it-all.
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He was pale, thin.
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He had that little mustache that would become bigger.
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He wore a black coat and a dark hat.
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He carried a black cane with a pretentious ivory handle.
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His great passion was Wagner--
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Those of you who know about music know that
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Wagner was a raving anti-Semite--
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as well as art and architecture,
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about which he claimed to know a great deal.
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He wanted to begin his artistic career at the academy in Vienna,