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Whales, brains, and islands.(Editorial)
From: Journal of Medical Speech - Language Pathology
Date: 20031201
Author:LaPointe, Leonard L.
... for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Mr. Stevenson had a way with words. For in the phantasmagoric chamber we entrap all of the treasured islands of mystery and history. I just read a review, written by John J. Puccio, of the DVD of the 1950 Disney classic kid adventure movie Treasure Island, and it struck a chord of familiarity and remembrance about this great yarn of sea life, pirates, buried gold, ...
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