"Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, …
"I wanna write like you"
4 stars
I get why the blurb on the front page calls him "the poet laureate of medicine". And you know what? I want to write like him! Sure his terminology is sometimes coloured by outmoded ways of neurology, but in essence, I want to write about my interests with the depth of an Oliver Sacks. And if it means I gotta quote books from 1874 in my goddamn homework about the Neckar valley, like I did years ago. It almost makes me angry that this almost certainly is not the way to publish with the threat of an academic career in my back.
I get why the blurb on the front page calls him "the poet laureate of medicine". And you know what? I want to write like him! Sure his terminology is sometimes coloured by outmoded ways of neurology, but in essence, I want to write about my interests with the depth of an Oliver Sacks. And if it means I gotta quote books from 1874 in my goddamn homework about the Neckar valley, like I did years ago. It almost makes me angry that this almost certainly is not the way to publish with the threat of an academic career in my back.
