II. Post 3A

Vocabulary:
1) stimulus- something that exerts action (Pg 35)
2) suffice- to be adequate (Pg 30)

Figuritive Language:
1) "eating some smoked whitefish, [...] earlier in this Christmas season, I heard in my mind 'O' come let is adore him.' Now the hymn has become associated with whitefish for me" (Pg. 36). It seems completely paradoxical that one could find association between a song and a completely unrelated food, but is true because it happened to the author. (Paradox)

2) "Chopin's mazurkas, which I learned by heart 60 years ago" (Pg. 30). The man Oliver Sacks is interviewing is clearly exaggerating about how long ago it was when he memorized this piece. (Hyperbole)

Quote:
"Jerome Bruner, a very musical friend, discribed to me how once, having put a favorite Mozart record on his turntable, he listened to it with great pleasure, and then went to turn it over to play the other side---only to find that he had never played it in the first place" (Pg. 32) This quotation shows how people with extreme musical memory can have musical hallucenations. The subject geos on to express that he thought he was actually listening to the song, not just hearing it in his mind.

Emerging Theme:
The concept that even people without a great musical memory can have musical hallucenations to the point where they think they are listening to the actual song emerges in Musicophilia.