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The Island of the Colorblind

Euripides V includes the plays “The Bacchae,” translated by William Arrowsmith; “Iphigenia in Aulis,” translated by Charles R. Walker; “The Cyclops,” translated by William Arrowsmith; and “Rhesus,” translated by Richmond Lattimore.

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Oliver Sacks (7)

“I wonder where it will go, whether it will survive, will be cast back here on Rota, or taken hundreds, perhaps thousands, of miles to another island in the Pacific. Ten minutes more ad I can no longer see it--it is launched, like a little ship, on its journey on the high seas.”

— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com

Tagged: Wonder, travel, Sea, Journey, Ship

“Now, as I wandered in the cycad forest on Rota, it seemed as if my senses were actually enlarging, as if a new sense, a time sense, was opening within me, something which might allow me to appreciate millennia or aeons as directly as I had experienced seconds or minutes.”

— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com

Tagged: Forest, Trees, plants, Nature, Natural

“The primeval, the sublime, are much better words here — for they indicate realms remote from the moral or the human, realms which force us to gaze into immense vistas of space and time, where the beginnings and originations of all things lie hidden.”

— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com

Tagged: primeval, Sublime, Words, realm, Remote

“But gardens, Eden or Kew, are not the right metaphors here, for the primeval has nothing to do with the human, but has to do with the ancient, the aboriginal, the beginning of all things.”

— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com

Tagged: Gardens, Garden, Nature, Natural, Metaphor

“My father one told me that the very word "paradise" meant garden, spelling out for me the four letters (pe resh dalet samech) of pardes, the Hebrew word for garden.”

— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com

Tagged: Garden, Word, Language, Spelling, Letters

“I find myself walking softly on the right undergrowth beneath the trees, not wanting to crack a twig, to crush or disturb anything in the least--for there is such a sense of stillness and peace that the wrong sort of movement, even one's very presence, might be fest as an intrusion, and, so to speak…”

— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com

Tagged: sound, Forest, Nature, Natural, Trees

“The beauty of the forest is extraordinary — but “beauty” is too simple a word, for being here is not just an aesthetic experience, but one steeped with mystery, with awe”

— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com

Tagged: beauty, Forest, Extraordinary, Word, Aesthetic