#13books that I think about often:

#OliverSacks Musicophilia

#WillAitken Antigone Undone: #JulietteBinoche, #AnneCarson, #IvoVanHove, and the Art of Resistance

#NickCave, And the Ass Saw the Angel

#MarkZDanielewski House of Leaves

#UmbertoEco The Island of the Day Before

#HermannHesse Glass Bead Game

#PatrickMcCabe Poguemahone

#NealStephenson Anathem

#HalldorLaxness Under the Glacier

#CanXue Frontier

#JohnDarnielle x2: Universal Harvester, Master of Reality

#MaggieRowe Sin Bravely

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. #HumanScale #OliverSacks #FutureVision https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/08/05/oliver-sacks-human-scale/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=HariTulsidas%2Fmagazine%2FMind+and+Matter

« 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 : https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/opinion/oliver-sacks-the-man-who-loved-words.html #Idées #Notes #OliverSacks

Boosting this survey for more responses. I'm super interested since reading Musicophilia by #OliverSacks 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 #AuditoryHallucinations. It's always mind-blowing to find out that what I assume to be a "normal" experience isn't.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/11/24/oliver-sacks-gratitude-book/
#philosophy
#OliverSacks
#mortality
#death
#dying
#LivingLifeWell
A review of Oliver Sacks’ last book “Gratitude”

#OliverSacks 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.

It's #WeirdPrideDay in the UK!

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

(See more about #WeirdPrideDay: https://eventbrite.co.uk/e/weird-pride-day-2023-tickets-527751558117…)

A composer with #Tourette turns #OliverSacks' "Awakenings" into an #opera. In this retelling, both the patients and the closeted #LGBTQ+ doctor/author face the challenges of awakening. #neurodiversity https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/27/oliver-sacks-gets-an-opera?utm_source=onsite-share&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=the-new-yorker

We talk to many people who have #Synesthesia. Have you read 
#Musicophilia by  #OliverSacks https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musicophilia?
#neurology #senses #biology #education

Thirst trap of the day: Late neurologist, author, and, most importantly, HOT GAY BEAR #OliverSacks. #medicine #LGBTQ+

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

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

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

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

#longcovid:
"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 #Awakenings with #RobinWilliams and #RobertDeNiro based upon the Book by #OliverSacks #Awakenings in which #OliverSacks on experienc in New York Montefiore Medical Center in 1960ies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5xuzSjl8eU

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

Can I list but #7Books ?

1. The Hound of The Baskervilles #ArthurConanDoyle

2. The Adventures of #SherlockHolmes, also ACD

3. On Being Idle #JeromeKJerome

4. The Inimitable Jeeves #pgwodehouse

5. The Adventures of Sally, also Plum

6. Mostly Murder by Sir Sydney Alfred Smith

7. Hallucinations #oliversacks

Okay, my turn, #7Books to know me better:

"The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" #DouglasAdams

"Tales of Pirx the Pilot" #StanislawLem

"Airport" #ArthurHailey

"Otter Three Two Calling" #LeifHamre

"Nemesis" #AgathaChristie

"The man who mistook his wife for a hat" #OliverSacks

"This is not a pity memoir"
#AbiMorgan

#WritingCommunity

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

“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

Who are 5-7 of your favourite authors? Add them as hashtags so we can find each other, boost this, share your own, etc. #bookstodon

I’m going to cheat and make 2 lists!

#fiction
#AgathaChristie
#ConnieWillis
#LianeMoriarty
#GeorgeEliot
#DaphneDuMaurier

#nonfiction
#CandiceMillard
#OliverSacks
#GaryKrist
#AtulGawande
#IsaacAsimov