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synesthesia is just interesting in general

845 - PUTTING POSION IN YOUR EYE FOR A MANS ATTENTION>>>>PLEASEEEEEEE

pg 833 - getting kind of tired of this book. maybe bc I'm reading it in larger chunks...... I think its more of one that I'd like to read in small pieces.

TS Eliot - "music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all, but you are the music while the music lasts"

listen to blake's jerusalum? the "swoon" is what makes it stick

pg 655- I want to try some of these. Interesting to explore ways of using sound and vibration to control breath and vibrations.

mmmm music described as the "perfume of hearing". yeah.

lol Diane has SO MANY RANDOM FACTS. like why do you know this hahahaha

pg 605 - I mean... whose to say if it true... but I'll be thinking on the idea that constant/frequent exposure to noise can amplify aggression.....

pg 593 - some interesting insight into language and culture here. something to think about when we are thinking of "offensive" words

51% nothing crazy to report from the taste section. There were some strange/interesting facts about eating experimental things, but nothing that felt like a unique insight from this specific book.

35% - When his companion tries to do the same thing, he recoils in pain, crying "doesn't that hurt you?" as he nurses his burned hand. "Yes," Lawrence replies coolly. "Then what is the trick?" the companion askes. "The trick." Lawrence answers, "is not to mind."

26% - Noli me tangere, legal Latin for "don't meddle with me or interfere," translates literally as "Don't touch me." and it is what Christ said to Mary Magdalen after the resurrection

111- "one of Gilbert's colleagues, George Preti, staged an experiment in which ten women had sweat of another women applied under their noses at regular intervals. It took three months for the women to begin menstruating at the same time as the women whose sweat they were smelling. A control group, daubed with alcohol instead of sweat, didn't change their cycle at all."