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idiots savants

  • plural
    of idiot savant.
    idiot savant
    noun
    a mentally defective person with an exceptional skill or talent in a special field, as a highly developed ability to play music or to solve complex mathematical problems mentally at great speed.

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And great artists are emotional idiots savants, charting the terra incognita of human experience by going over the edge.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some idiots savants are able to go through long sequences of phone numbers, produce complete listings of prime numbers, and execute incredible multiplication and division.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin

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