Farewell to Oliver Sacks, the great thinker that understood how a man could mistake his wife for a hat, and delineated the distinction between apperceptive agnosia and associative agnosia........You know.....I was just looking for that whatjamacallit next to the thingamagig....You know.....the one that's a dead ringer for what'shername, Dolallies's friend...... "The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must interact with dozens or hundreds of others, their total integration creating something like a vastly complicated orchestra with thousands of instruments, an orchestra that conducts itself, with an ever-changing score and repertoire.” ― Oliver Sacks
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A friend was 'proofreading' part of my 'Semi-Book'......confounded a bit by my use of 'writing tools'........Annoyed, by his preferential expectations of mediocrity, I considered re-writing the entire thing, with another Selplnig....Want something 'easy to read'....go to the drugstore and get a popular novel from the bookstand there.....I DID illustrate it, after all....which saved a hundred thousand words! i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
