…or something like that!
I learnt a new word: Proso…, Propa…, Prospa…, …pagnosia. Hell with that, have a look at this video to learn the new word:
So, the word is: Prosopagnosia meaning ‘Face-blindness’!
After I heard the explanation by Mr. Close, I almost instinctively remembered Sora, from the now ‘infamous’ manga Sketchbook (here at my blog), who also has some version of it as is evident from these panels:
Just so you know, Asou(-san) usually keeps her hair tied into two ponytails like this:
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I heard about Chuck Close in a radio show. It is a bit interesting but also a bit long:
ReplyDeletehttp://blogs.wnyc.org/radiolab/2010/06/15/strangers-in-the-mirror/
The embedded audio and the download link do not seem to work there!
ReplyDelete"Prosopagnosia" -even blogspot underlines it when I typed it in here.
ReplyDeleteand after following ur wiki link to the same only one question comes to mind: What other mental malady did Dirac have?
I don't get the 'what other' phrase in your last sentence! He definitely was not prosopagnosic! One of the recent biographies about Dirac suggests he was autistic or something... I think all this speculation doesn't lead one anywhere!!!
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