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From: "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: YASID
Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 14:22:10 -0500
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On 20/05/2024 13.09, technovelist wrote:
> Anyone have a reference for a short story in which a famous composer is "brought back from the dead"
> by giving a completely nonmusical person a "personality transplant" (my term, I'm not sure what it
> was called in the story)? The twist is that the "revived composer" realizes just before they take
> away the personality transplant is that he is the critics' version of the composer, a complete hack
> with no actual original ability.

"A Work of Art", by Blish.

<https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?40770>


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Michael F. Stemper
Galatians 3:28