Buffy Leigh (she/they) · @buffyleigh
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that I think about often:

Musicophilia

Antigone Undone: , , , and the Art of Resistance

, And the Ass Saw the Angel

House of Leaves

The Island of the Day Before

Glass Bead Game

Poguemahone

Anathem

Under the Glacier

Frontier

x2: Universal Harvester, Master of Reality

Sin Bravely

#maggierowe #johndarnielle #canxue #halldorlaxness #nealstephenson #patrickmccabe #hermannhesse #umbertoeco #markzdanielewski #nickcave #ivovanhove #AnneCarson #JulietteBinoche #willaitken #oliversacks #13books

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Hari Tulsidas :verified: · @haritulsidas
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Human scale is a concept proposed by Oliver Sacks, a neurologist and writer, as a key idea for the future. It means we must preserve the human dimension in everything we do, from architecture to technology, from culture to nature. It also means that we have to respect our human needs and values and avoid becoming anonymous or alienated in a world that is too big, fast, or complex. themarginalian.org/2023/08/05/

#humanscale #oliversacks #futurevision

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Pierre-Yves Comtois · @pycomtois
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« The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book. » — George Steiner

💡 Swimming in Words With Oliver Sacks, The New York Times : nytimes.com/2018/08/29/opinion

#idees #notes #oliversacks

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Buffy Leigh (she/they) · @buffyleigh
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Boosting this survey for more responses. I'm super interested since reading Musicophilia by and realizing not everyone "hears" or can replay a piece of music in their head, either spontaneously or on command, and that at least some versions of this could be classified as . It's always mind-blowing to find out that what I assume to be a "normal" experience isn't.

#auditoryhallucinations #oliversacks

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Stuart Clark · @Ericthebeeover2
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Pat · @patrascan
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I miss Dr. Sacks immensely. His erudition, eloquence especially as a writer, gentle demeanor, deep understanding and compassion for other humans, healing gifts for his patients...he was one of a kind. I think of him often and grieve over what we have lost.

#oliversacks

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Steve Silberman · @stevesilberman
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It's in the UK!

Confession: I'm weird, despite being a boring . With role models like , , and , what did you expect - that I'd be normal?

(See more about : eventbrite.co.uk/e/weird-pride)

#weirdprideday #neurotypical #oliversacks #allenginsberg #davidcrosby

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Steve Silberman · @stevesilberman
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A composer with turns ' "Awakenings" into an . In this retelling, both the patients and the closeted + doctor/author face the challenges of awakening. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02

#tourette #oliversacks #opera #lgbtq #neurodiversity

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Perceptions Today · @PerceptionsToday
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Steve Silberman · @stevesilberman
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Thirst trap of the day: Late neurologist, author, and, most importantly, HOT GAY BEAR . +

[📸 James Estrin for the New York Times via IG: oliversacksfdn]

#oliversacks #medicine #lgbtq

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Gabriel Garrido · @ggpsv
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Current bedtime reading is Oliver Sack's "The River of Consciousness". This book is a collection of essays on topics such as botany, evolution, and neuroscience. It was published posthumously as Sacks died a couple of weeks after outlining the contents of the book.

I enjoyed this excerpt from an essay on Darwin's significant contributions to the field of Botany. How often do we remind ourselves of our interconnectedness with all other living beings?

#botany #oliversacks

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FND warrior · @avds2708_1
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I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged.

#quote #oliversacks

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Roger Gathmann · @rogergathmann
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Now, I am a man who sings to himself. I’ve been doing that forever. When I ride a bike, I will sing long Dylan or Leonard Cohen songs to myself. When I cook in the kitchen, I sing along, often wandering off the lyrics, to the Black Angels or Nick Cave. I have a pretty good songbook in my head.

But I am not a man who hums to himself. @aging

#oliversacks #neurology

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Gustave Courbet · @port80guru
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:
"His gaze from staring through the
bars has grown so weary that it
can take in nothing more
For him it is as though there
were a thousand bars, and behind
the thousand bars, no world
As he paces in cramped circles, [...]"
Rainer Maria Rilke, Paris 1902
and in the Movie with and based upon the Book by in which on experienc in New York Montefiore Medical Center in 1960ies:
youtube.com/watch?v=T5xuzSjl8e

#LongCovid #awakenings #robinwilliams #robertdeniro #oliversacks

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Ian Kahn · @DominusSomes
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Oliver Sacks’ Review of the Day. “…it was only when I tore [the cover] off that I was able to get into it’”.

#oliversacks #bookreview

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MB · @triflesandeggs
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Can I list but ?

1. The Hound of The Baskervilles

2. The Adventures of , also ACD

3. On Being Idle

4. The Inimitable Jeeves

5. The Adventures of Sally, also Plum

6. Mostly Murder by Sir Sydney Alfred Smith

7. Hallucinations

#7books #ArthurConanDoyle #sherlockholmes #jeromekjerome #PGWodehouse #oliversacks

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Strange Seawolf · @strangeseawolf
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Okay, my turn, to know me better:

"The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy"

"Tales of Pirx the Pilot"

"Airport"

"Otter Three Two Calling"

"Nemesis"

"The man who mistook his wife for a hat"

"This is not a pity memoir"

#7books #DouglasAdams #stanislawlem #arthurhailey #leifhamre #AgathaChristie #oliversacks #abimorgan #WritingCommunity

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Stan Carey · @stancarey
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Reading "Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain" by Oliver Sacks this morning. Here's a fun footnote on two contrasting musical intervals: the diabolical tritone and its near-relative the "Clapham Junction of Harmony" 🎼 🎵

#music #books #oliversacks #metaphor #composing #musictheory #tritone #harmony

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Zeina Kalaji :verified: · @Zeinakal9
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“For there is often a struggle, and sometimes, even more interestingly, a collusion between the powers of pathology and creation.”

An interesting read.
The man who mistook his wife for a hat.

#oliversacks

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Caroline · @carolineseydel
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