Grab your current read (or a book on your shelf that you've read or been wanting to read). Let the book fall open to a random page. Share two teaser sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12. Don't forget to share the title and author of the book in case someone is teased into reading. Please avoid spoilers!
I've posted my teaser below. Post yours in the comment section if you'd like to share as well!
We have a number of such patients, also on the aphasia ward, although, technically, they do not have aphasia, but, instead, a form of agnosia, in particular a so-called 'tonal' agnosia. For such patients, typically, the expressive qualities of voices diappear--their tone, their timbre, their feeling, their entire character--while words (and grammatical constructions) are perfectly understood.
from The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Part I, Section 9--Losses, The President's Speech, p. 83) by Dr. Oliver Sacks
P.S. Oliver Sacks also wrote Awakenings (made into 1990 movie featuring Robert DeNiro and Robin Williams as Dr. Sacks)
