TALENT

It was heads-up. Two cards in my hand -- and when the flop came down, eight or nine people in the crowd yelled out eight or nine different suggestions.

When most toddlers encounter a piano, they start banging on the piano keys. But when Glenn Gould was a kid, he had a habit of striking one key hard with one finger -- holding it there for a long, long time -- listening to the tune of that one note -- holding his finger steady -- until the sound completely died away.