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  1. Oliver Sacks _ The Island of the Colorblind

    If the students were taught about shuttle flights, plate tectonics and submarine volcanoes, they were also immersed in the traditional myths of their culture-the ancient story, for example, of how the island of Pohnpei had been built under the direction of a mystical octopus, Lidakika. {I was fascinated by this, for it was the only cephalopod creation myth I had ever heard.
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  2. Oliver Sacks _ The Island of the Colorblind

    Might they indeed see us as peculiar, distracted by trivial or irrelevant aspects of the visual world, and insufficiently sensitive to its real visual essence?
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