Musicophilia
Sacks, Oliver Music is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a uniquepower to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly.With his trademark compassion and erudition, Dr Oliver Sack sexamines the power of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people. Among them: a surgeon who is struck by lightning and sudde...