I Feel Therefore I Am

I do not wish to suggest that having all one's senses intact makes one a better human. No. Humans have a remarkable ability to adapt and all humans indeed FEEL.

"One of the greatest sensuists of all time -- not Cleopatra, Marilyn Monroe, Proust, or any of the other obvious voluptuaries -- was a handicapped woman with several senses gone. Blind, deaf, mute, Helen Keller's remaining senses were so finely attuned that when she put her hands on the radio to enjoy music, she could tell the difference between the cornets and the strings. She listened to colorful, down-home stories of life surging along the Mississippi from the lips of her friend Mark Twain. She wrote at length about the whelm of life's aromas, tastes, touches, feelings, which she explored with the voluptuousness of a courtesan. Despite her handicaps, she was more robustly alive than many people of her generation." From Dianne Ackerman's A Natural History of the Senses, introduction.

I wish I knew how to make movies.I don't have good tools and am in the midst of imagining what I could do for Adam in terms of effects. Tools are everything.