The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales Kate Riordan This clarity is Michael Thompson

This clarity is Michael Thompson s aim in his ambitious work

For as long as there have been fairy tales

On the stormy night of his arrival

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the only person he can safely reach out to is Oskar

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales Kate Riordan This clarity is Michael ThompsonIn his most extraordinary book, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. These are case studies of people who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people or common objects; whose limbs have become alien; who are afflicted and yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. In Dr Sacks'