1) neurologically- involving the brain/ central nervous system (pg. 4)
2) insatiable- uncontrollable, incapable of being satisfied (pg. 5)
Figurative Language:
1) "His music is ceaseless. 'It never runs dry,' he continued. 'If anything, I have to turn it off" (Pg. 6). Oliver refers to music like it is water coming from a faucet. (metaphor)
2-3) Oliver Sacks is a doctor, and although he uses considerable technical literature, he uses very little figurative language. In fact, the one I have for #1 was what one of his patient's said, not him. In other words, I could not find any more examples of figurative language he used in his book.
Quote:
"Listening to music is not just auditory and emotional, it is motoric as well: 'We listen to music with our muscles [...] we keep time to music, involuntarily." (Pg. xi) This excerpt best explains one of the lesser known aspects of the human relationship to music.
Emerging Theme:
Oliver Sacks brings in the theme in the introduction to Musicophilia that the human mind is connected to music in many, sometimes unnoticeable ways.
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