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Proust and the Squid

Underlying the brain’s ability to learn reading lies its protean capacity to make new connections among structures and circuits originally devoted to other more basic brain processes that have enjoyed a longer existence in human evolution, such as vision and …
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28. January 2012 by The Geecologist
Categories: Lies, Truth & Lies | Tags: brain, chinese, english, extract, joseph epstein, maryanne wolf, neurons, open architecture, proust and the squid, quotation, reading, we are what we read | Leave a comment

If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller

So, then, you noticed in a newspaper that If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller had appeared, the new book by Italo Calvino, who hadn’t published for several years. You went to the bookshop and bought the volume. Good for …
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06. January 2012 by The Geecologist
Quoted from Italo Calvino written in 1979
Categories: Lies, Truth & Lies | Tags: books, consumerism, crowd, if on a winter's night a traveller, italo calvino, reading | Leave a comment

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