Posted by DSCH on March 21, 2004, at 9:20:08
In reply to The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat..., posted by EscherDementian on March 12, 2004, at 6:01:10
> ...and Other Clinical Tales"
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> This title sounds too delicious. It brings to mind a suggestion of ANYTHING by author "James Thurber" , and the preface & drawing in the very first page by author Antoine De Saint-Exupery in "The Little Prince".
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> i don't know if i shall find either humour OR something good for my child-soul in "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat"This is indeed an awesome book, but the title is perhaps a bit too whimsical. These are popular literary renditions of Sack's clinical case studies.
The title refers to a professor of music who had some form of progressive deterioration of visual faculties that left him unable to properly process and relate with all but the most rudimentary objects.
http://www.macalester.edu/~psych/whathap/diaries/diariess98/debbie/wife%20or%20hat
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