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That artists frequently have insights which scientists later verify is no groundbreaking idea. Some of the case studies in this book, i.e. the chapter on George Eliot (including an unforgivably bad misreading of Lydgate's story, a veritable half of the main plot of Middlemarch), are rather silly. Others, the chapters on Proust and prions, or the search for umami, or the workings of the visual and auditory cortices as revealed by the works of Cezanne and Stravinsky, are rather interesting and com
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