Review of Stroke of Insight – by Jill Bolte Taylor

Jill Bolte Taylor’s autobiographical account of her own brain hemorrhage is a fascinating look into the microcosm of the brain and ultimately, into life itself. As a Neuro-Anatomist, Taylor’s scientific ability to draw us deep into the details of the form and function is raw and rampant, yet she is able to massage the [...]

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On the beach, at night,
Stands a child, with her father,
Watching the east, the autumn sky.
Up through the darkness,
While ravening clouds, the burial clouds, in black masses spreading,
Lower, sullen and fast, athwart and down the sky,
Amid a transparent clear belt of ether yet left in the east,
Ascends, large and calm, the lord-star Jupiter;
And nigh at [...]

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