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John Byrne
Grumpy Old Guy
Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 132135
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Posted: 30 August 2015 at 11:29am | IP Logged | 1
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Author of many books on the mysteries of the brain, including THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT. Basis of the Robin Williams character in AWAKENINGS.
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Matt Hawes Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 16407
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Posted: 30 August 2015 at 11:53am | IP Logged | 2
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Tim O Neill Byrne Robotics Security
Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 10918
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Posted: 30 August 2015 at 2:22pm | IP Logged | 3
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I admired his writing a lot - I think I had to read excerpts of THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT in college and found it interesting, but I really became engaged in his writing when I read a 1993 article he wrote in the THE NEW YORKER called "To See and Not to See", about a man who lost his eyesight as a child, and then regained it at the age of 50. That article had a huge impact on me. I credit that article with making me a NEW YORKER subscriber to this day, and of course the start of reading Sacks' books over the years.
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Peter Martin Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 March 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 15729
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Posted: 30 August 2015 at 7:31pm | IP Logged | 4
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Sorry to hear this -- I admired the man and his work a great deal.
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