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  TimesCast | Understanding Hyperpolyglots

  
  Start with the concept of the autodidact.
  People who learn without a set goal do not have a stop point.
  
  One place my mind wandered today:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Index
  
  I arrived there by considering the Republicans as clever.
  The Thurber story of "The Unicorn in the Garden" came up as a tactic.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unicorn_in_the_Garden 
   
  I do not know most of the 584 Perry lists.

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