The Man Who Tasted Words: Inside the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses

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Or sugar taste as sweet? The cases Leschziner shares in The Man Who Tasted Words are extreme, but they are also human, and teach us how our lives and what we perceive as reality are both ultimately defined by the complexities of our nervous systems. The book concludes with a set of liturgies, our Words of Hope, that we say together online at 5. The translation into experiences with conscious meaning—the pattern of light and dark on the retina that is transformed into the face of a loved one, for instance—is a process that is invisible, undetected by ourselves and, in most cases, completely out of our control. But what happens if that wiring goes awry?