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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: TVC15 on September 08, 2008, 04:12:56 AM

Title: Attention Arvie (and other interested parties): Read this. Oliver Sacks sample.
Post by: TVC15 on September 08, 2008, 04:12:56 AM

I know some of you here have to be familiar with him.  Given what Arvie likes to read, I think he'd dig Oliver Sacks, and he's mentioned he has some of his books on his wish list.  Here's a recent book review he did for a book that is about (apparently) bipolar disorder.  Notice how packed with information this is for a review.  Even when he writes a review, it's like he's actually writing an article.  I'd totally suck him off.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21774

Also, this anecdote about Sacks is awesome:

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His mother, a surgeon and professor of anatomy, hoped her son would follow in her footsteps. When Sacks was 14, she took him to the Royal Free Hospital in London to watch -- and take part in -- the dissection of a human corpse.

"I was very shocked and frightened," he says. "I had never seen a corpse before. It was suggested that I dissect a leg, and the professor said, 'here's a nice leg for you'."

Although Sacks had dissected plenty of worms and frogs before, this business of cutting up a human body was altogether different. And more disturbing for him, the body was that of a girl his own age. "I wanted to ask, what happened? How did she die? How did she find her way here?"

Title: Re: Attention Arvie (and other interested parties): Read this. Oliver Sacks sample.
Post by: Reb on September 08, 2008, 06:08:33 AM

I fucking love Oliver (Butt)Sacks!

I will be reading this when I get home.