# Do you have recurring fantasies of escorting a historical figure around modern times?

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**Created:** [July 5, 2007, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-recurring-fantasies-of-escorting-a-historical-figure-around-modern-times/410626 "2007-07-05T18:44:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-recurring-fantasies-of-escorting-a-historical-figure-around-modern-times/410626/101 "2007-07-11T21:54:13Z")

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I do this sort of thing all the time. I think it’s a great way to try to understand all the technology we take for granted.

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**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-recurring-fantasies-of-escorting-a-historical-figure-around-modern-times/410626/102 "2007-07-11T22:35:26Z")

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[QUOTE=WordMan]  
I think of Mozart as a musical savant, who was known for working in a wide variety of styles and music forms - and offering quintessential examples of those forms. So he was open to - and apparently mastered - a wide variety of styles. That suggests to me he’d be more open to musical innovation than most composers, who would likely be locked into their ways.  
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Another “me too” for the concept, and for the sub-concept of Showing Modern Music to Mozart. I think he’d be fascinated by how modern music is more rhythmically and melodically complex than he’s used to (the non-European influence); but from an instrumentation standpoint, he’d see modern music as banging logs with a stick.

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**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-recurring-fantasies-of-escorting-a-historical-figure-around-modern-times/410626/103 "2007-07-12T04:06:40Z")

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Plus, the boy _parties_. Take him to Vegas and watch his eyes light up as he finally “gets it”. 😉

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