Thoughts on The Mind's Eye

Reading The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks. After Warlord I needed a metaphorical bucket of cold water and this is it. Published in October, Sacks documents some fascinating case studies, but the one I can't get out of my head is a chapter called 'man of letters'. About (or should that be aboot) a Canadian writer who woke up one morning unable to read a word. He could see letters but they made no sense to him.

My idea of hell.

Weird thing is he could still write, he just couldn't read what he'd written but if he traced the letter in the air with his finger or his tongue he could work out the word(s).