October 13, 2006
Like Synesthesia, but Tactile-Based Rather than Color.
"What could be more dry than a statistic? More indifferent than a number? To be treated like a number, in common parlance, is to become an entirely replaceable part -- an object lesson in depersonalization."
Two is solid and tingly, like the Liberty Bell....Eight is rough and hard like a stone, and 10 is smooth like a pebble on the beach. Nine...seems ready not only to ring but to shatter and burst like a fruit. [quoting Richard Friedberg]
--"Mind Over Matter, Conversations with the Cosmos", by K.C. Cole.
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