The World I Live In (New York Review Books Classics)
Contributors: Roger Shattuck (Introduction)
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Published: January 31, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781590170670
Subjects: Biography: general; Disability: social aspects; Specific Groups - Special Needs; Keller, Helen,; Perception; Services For The Physically Challenged; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Senses and sensation; Historical - General; Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs; 1880-1968
Description: The seeing hand -- The hands of others -- The hand of the race -- The power of touch -- The finer vibrations -- Smell, the fallen angel -- Relative values of the senses -- The five-sensed world -- Inward visions -- Analogies in sense perception -- Before the soul dawn -- The larger sanctions -- The dream world -- Dreams and reality -- A waking dream -- A chant of darkness -- Optimism 1903 -- Part I: Optimism within -- Part II: Optimism without -- Part III: The practice of optimism -- My story, 1894.