I love this man.
I first picked up "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat" in college, and have greatly admired him ever since. Sacks is credited with enabling laymen such as myself to access some of the hidden mysteries shrouding the inner workings of the human brain in language that is easy to follow and great fun to read.
In his new book, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, he discusses the cases of the surgeon who was struck by lightning and became obsessed with learning to play the piano; of the musician whose memory was destroyed by disease but who can still play a Bach sonata; and of the countless ways in which the human brain is stimulated, soothed, agitated and sometimes shattered by music.
It is the work of a man who, to borrow Sackss description of the brain, is exquisitely tuned to music. It is written in his signature style filled with quirky charm and compassion, more descriptive than analytic, more lyrical than scientific. The New York Times has called him the poet laureate of medicine.
Did I mention that I love this man?
I first picked up "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat" in college, and have greatly admired him ever since. Sacks is credited with enabling laymen such as myself to access some of the hidden mysteries shrouding the inner workings of the human brain in language that is easy to follow and great fun to read.
In his new book, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, he discusses the cases of the surgeon who was struck by lightning and became obsessed with learning to play the piano; of the musician whose memory was destroyed by disease but who can still play a Bach sonata; and of the countless ways in which the human brain is stimulated, soothed, agitated and sometimes shattered by music.
It is the work of a man who, to borrow Sackss description of the brain, is exquisitely tuned to music. It is written in his signature style filled with quirky charm and compassion, more descriptive than analytic, more lyrical than scientific. The New York Times has called him the poet laureate of medicine.
Did I mention that I love this man?
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