I had never thought about what it might mean to be deaf, to be deprived of language, or to have a remarkable language (and community and culture) of oneโs own. Up to this point, I had mostly thought and written about the problems of individualsโhere I was to encounter an entire community.
Oliver SacksMusic is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.
Oliver SacksEnhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This danger is built into the very nature of growth and life. Growth can become over-growth, life 'hyper-life' ... The paradox of an illness which can present as wellness - as a wonderful feeling of health and well-being, and only later reveal its malignant potentials - is one of the chimaeras, tricks and ironies of nature.
Oliver Sacks