From hunsucker@uba.uva.nl Fri Oct 11 01:31:55 2002 Received: from mailscan1.cac.washington.edu (mailscan1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.16]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with SMTP id g9B8VqFD094894 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 01:31:52 -0700 Received: FROM mxu3.u.washington.edu BY mailscan1.cac.washington.edu ; Fri Oct 11 01:31:51 2002 -0700 Received: from barlaeus.ic.uva.nl (barlaeus.ic.uva.nl [145.18.68.50]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with ESMTP id g9B8VoMG028903 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 01:31:51 -0700 Received: from ubs084178.uba.uva.nl (UBS084178.uba.uva.nl [145.18.84.178]) by barlaeus.ic.uva.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA13435 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:31:49 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20021011103642.00885100@mail.uba.uva.nl> X-Sender: hunsucke@mail.uba.uva.nl X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:36:42 +0200 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: "R.L. Hunsucker (UvA/UBA)" Subject: Re: the geographically handicapped and other disabilitiesy In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 10:57 10-10-02 -0500, Geoffrey Harrison wrote : >A guess at the identity of JOD's uncertain peripatetic: Oliver Sacks. >See the new essay by same in the most recent issue of the _New Yorker_, >in which Dr. Sacks briefly mentions his directional challenge. This could partly explain why one of his favorite places (e.g. just to sit and think) is the hortus botanicus in Amsterdam. A sort of feeling of directionlessness and even placelessness, but not extensive enough to get lost. And right smack in the middle of town, but across the street from a small old-fashioned park with the elegant Auschwitz Monument of Jan Wolkers, and near by a seventeenth-century synagogue () and museum of Jewish history. I just rode past them in the tram on my way to work. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Laval Hunsucker hunsucker@uba.uva.nl ------------------------------ #################### .