On the move with Oliver Sacks

 

 

Oliver Sacks in Greenwich Village in 1961, on his new BMW R60 (Photograph: Douglas White)

“I have been able to see my life as from a great altitude, as a sort of landscape, and with a deepening sense of the connection of all its parts”
Oliver Sacks

Because dying matters

[...] I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions.
[...] Over the last few days, I have been able to see my life as from a great altitude, as a sort of landscape, and with a deepening sense of the connection of all its parts.
[...] I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential.
[...] When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.
[...] Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.

aqui.
Mais sobre.

Inner life: O cérebro independente.

Caminho a passos largos para a surdez. Pergunto-me se irei ser mais um número na lista daqueles, cujos cérebros, numa de saudosismo e autocompensação, produzem autenticas colagens sonoras (nem sempre musicais).
Reflexões. Musicofilia: Oliver Sacks