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Topic #73: Grab the nearest book (or website) to you right now. Jump to paragraph three, second sentence. Write it in a post.

The closest book to me is The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks. This book is essentially a compilation of stories of people with unique and intriguing disabilities and health problems. I originally bought it because I needed to read a few chapters out of it for my psychology course, but the stories are so interestingr that I’m most likely going to keep it and finish reading the rest.

The random page that I opened up to was the beginning of Chapter 8 titled “Eyes Right!” I tried putting the second sentence in the third paragraph in a post, but I couldn’t really think of anything, so I decided to just explain what the story was about because I’m pretty sure many people would find it intriguing.

The story features someone named Mrs. S. who has hemi-inattention, or the ability to pay attention to an entire half of the world. In Mrs. S.’s case, she was hemi-inattentive in her right brain hemisphere, which made her oblivious to anything on the left side of her body. That means, when she puts makeup on her face, she forgets to put makeup on the left side of her face; when she’s eating food, she only eats off the right side of her plate.

The second sentence on the third paragraph is: “She cannot look left, directly, she cannot turn left, so what she does is to turn right – and right through a circle” (Sacks, 77). Because Mrs. S. learned of her impairment, she devised a solution to adapt to it – instead of trying to look to her left and being unsuccessful, she would keep going right until she came full circle.

So Far in 2011…

Number of Taco Bell tacos eaten: 21 (+3 from a few days ago that I forgot to add in)

Number of times I did my own laundry: 2