Jillyn Smith
Autore di Senses and Sensibilities
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Very helpful for those of us who find we have been buried alive inside a pit of flesh. Smith, a biologist/journalist, describes the peep-holes -- senses: "Hearing: the noblest faculty", "Vision: a Viewpoint" (the human eye was meant for distant vision and for gradual movements [58, reading is bad for children's sight! 78]), Smell: Inarticulate Sense, Taste: Accounting For It, Touch: Confirmatory Sense, and Seeking Sensory Experience . Great book for people who love getting physical, who recognize that Curiosity is "sensible", and...who like massages and cats [198-203 "to be is to touch"; talk silly to a cat 202]. The final chapter is as biology-centered as the rest, but edges toward an implied exhortation: Get out of solitary confinement - take the voyage in search of spices!… (altro)