quoted 2 lines post...BUT, I recently read an article pertaining to a small percentage of
> post...BUT, I recently read an article pertaining to a small percentage of
> people who are able to describe tastes as geometric shapes. They
I think I saw that too: a rare form of synaesthesia ~ the same thing
Nabokov had that let him always associate very specific colors with
different lettersounds. he talkes about this in the first section of
'speak, memory, his autobiography.
Richard Feynman apparently saw the different elements of (written)
formulae in different colors...
My roommate's got an unusual form of this, certain sounds (e.g., whispered
foreign languages she doesn't understand) literally paralyze her with
ecstacy. She says she's ridden busses for half an hour after her stop,
transfixed by that kind of sound...!
...aaron
ghede@well.com
http://www.quietamerican.org
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