Musicofilia oliver sacks5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In one particularly poignant passage, emanating his usual gift for exposing the monumental through the minute, Dr. Vincent Millay to profess: “Without music I should wish to die.” Oliver Sacks by Wendy MacNaughton It was a relationship that once saved his life and culminated in his magnificent book Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain ( public library) - an immensely insightful exploration of the physiological and psychological phenomena behind the all too common human impulse that once compelled the poet Edna St. Throughout his long career as a working scientist who bewitched the popular imagination with beautiful writing, he frequently turned to music as his storytelling muse. A science-storyteller like the late, great, sorely missed Oliver Sacks (July 9, 1933–August 30, 2015) comes about once a century, if we’re lucky. ![]()
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