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> don’t remember the title. Found this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17687533 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17687533 which leads to: https://
by jolmg 5y ago
> don’t remember the title.
Found this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17687533 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17687533
which leads to:
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/people-cured-blindness-see/amp https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/people-cured-blindne...
which leads to:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/05/10/to-see-and-not-see?intcid=inline_amp https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/05/10/to-see-and-not...
> TO SEE AND NOT SEE By Oliver Sacks May 2, 1993
> A NEUROLOGIST'S NOTEBOOK about Virgil (pseud.), who lost his eyesight as a child, and regained it at age 50. Tells how he could not adjust to the sighted world, and eventually had to be hospitalized.
Unfortunately, it needs a New Yorker account to view.
- fossuser 5y agoYep - that looks like the stuff I was remembering, nice find.