Yet as I wrote at the time, what he was asserting was a physical impossibility.

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The physical impossibility was beside the point.

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Mr. MA: I think it was the combination of energy and to a player, a cellist, a fellow cellist, the impossibility of what he was doing on the instrument beyond physical ability.

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