Similar to our previous class discussion on whether or not we are our brains, Oliver Sacks’ “The Last Mariner” brought up the question to me, are we our souls then? Are we our selves if we cannot actually recall who…
Response to “The P.T. Barnum of the Postmodern World?”
Cassuto approaches Oliver Sacks’ case studies in a literary sense, breaking down the different genres that Sacks works within or around. Cassuto suggests that disabilities have long been represented in “two arenas of human objectification,” the freak show and the…
Close Reading: Oliver Sacks The Landscape of His Dreams
In today’s class discussion, I enjoyed the close reading exercise and figured it would be a good topic for my post. Kaitlyn and I chose the following as our excerpt from The Landscape of His Dreams: “This nonstop verbosity, this…
“The Landscape of His Dreams”
In “The Landscape of His Dream” Sacks introduces us to a guy name Franco who misses his hometown Pontito and became over obsessed. “Every night, he dreamed of Pontito, not of his family, not of activities or events, but of…
Thinking in Pictures
It’s amazing how human brains work differently from one another and reacts to certain things differently, “While I was trapped between the windows, it was almost impossible to communicate through the glass. Being autistic is like being trapped like this”…
The Landscape of His Dreams
What instantly struck me about “The Landscape of His Dreams,” is how Sacks calls Franco the “commander (or slave) of a prodigious native power of imagery and power,” (154). I never pictured having an eidetic memory to carry a negative connotation. However,…
“The Last Hippie”
“The Last Hippie”, I think, is a perfect example of our class discussion about wheather or not you are your brain. It’s such an interesting debate. Deadhead Greg is a patient Sacks writes about here, describing his memory condition. What…
TED Talk: Martin Pistorius
Food for thought: Martin Pictorius – TED Talk As we were discussing the concept of the brain versus self, I remembered a TED Talk from this past year I had seen online. The man, Martin Pictorius, speaks about his time…
Response to “A Surgeon’s Life
I really enjoyed reading this case/ narrative the beginning starts off with a general statement “Tourette’s syndrome is seen in every race, every culture, every stratum of society” (pg 77) in using this as his introduction Oliver Sacks gives the…
The Case of The Colorblind Painter
I found this account to be the most interesting because my brother is colorblind. He does not see gray or black like Mr. I does but he does not see colors in the full effect like people who aren’t colorblind.…
