Dangerously wellโโ what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling โtoo well
Oliver SacksIf a man with a dog sits quietly enjoying music and smiling, his dog might sit down beside him and smile, too. But who knows whether the dog is having a comparable experience or whether the dog is simply happy that his master is happy.
Oliver SacksDarwin speculated that โmusic tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all kinds are excited not only by love, but by strong passions of jealousy, rivalry, and triumphโ and that speech arose, secondarily, from this primal music.
Oliver Sacks