The late Oliver Sacks’s observations on the mind sometimes sound a lot like Shakespeare in “Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “The Tempest.”
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Sacks & the Bard’s Midsummer Madness
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Dying and a Night Powdered with Stars
Oliver Sacks, as he is dying, shares Milton’s wonder at a night sky “powdered with stars.”
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