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“And so all of you observers in your scrutiny// Don’t count my scars like tree rings.”

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Franz Liszt, Austrian-Hungarian composer, still looking quite foxy at 47 in 1858.

A physician whose speciality is the disorders of women and with whom I conversed as to the magic which our Liszt exercises on his public, smiled mysteriously and told many things of magnetism, galvanism, electricity, of contagion in an overheated hall…

—Heinrich Heine explains the phenomenon of Lizstomania in 1844.

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