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Although the society is new, physicians and scholars have known about the condition for centuries. History, in fact, teems with brilliant synesthetes--including such luminaries as novelist Vladimir Nabokov, composer Franz Liszt and physicist Richard Feynman. Synesthesia enjoyed a certain spiritual currency in the late 19th century, especially among the European avant-garde. Many artists, most notably abstract painter Wassily Kandinsky, were famed for their synesthetic pretensions. "I saw all my colors," wrote Kandinsky, recalling his experience of a Wagner opera. "Wild lines verging on the insane formed drawings before my very eyes...
...tells me that he is Prince Franz, presumably a distant cousin of the Leopold clan. My suspicions about the prince are heightened when he hands his consort one of those throwaway cameras and instructs her to snap a shot of him with Crowe. Certainly nothing that a real royal from Britain would do. But the Euro-royals are known to ride bikes in Holland and wait at bus stops in Spain. So perhaps having a mantelpiece snapshot with an Australian actor is part of that less starchy image...
...farmers who make better environmental use of their land. In any case, she has run into a brick wall in Brussels: France has vetoed any changes to agricultural policy until after its 2002 presidential elections. At home, Künast has been forced to oppose E.U. agriculture chief Franz Fischler's efforts to cut subsidies for farms with more than 90 animals: the move could hurt the big cooperatives that are among eastern Germany's few economic bright spots...
...Estimating the cost of such measures at $2.8 billion this year, E.U. agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler has warned that the Union's farm budget could be strained to the breaking point. Meeting in Brussels last week, E.U. finance ministers approved an additional $900 million but warned that any further costs would have to be met with funds from other programs...
...Germain, Bohumil Hrabal, Franz Kafka, Milan Kundera, Jan Neruda, Gustav Meyrink, Rainer Maria Rilke, and others...