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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (13053)	2/29/2000 11:46:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 769667

I can't find the text online, unfortunately, so you'll have to settle for this second hand account of what Sacks' patients thought of the lion king. Some people found him good for a laugh, anyway. Anyway, about my pondering. I was reading a chapter in the book, entitled The President's Speech. It was about these individuals in a psych ward who were diagnosed with aphasia. Aphasia is the inability to comprehend speech or produce meaningful speech. This,however, does not mean that they are unable to understand what is being said. Sacks talked of how these individuals have the ability to understand the emotional connotation underlying what is being said. For instance, instead of understanding that I have just said "My mother has died," they could comprehend that something terrible has occurred in my life and I am exceptionally sad. Sacks provided the example of President Reagan's inauguration speech. He told of how the patients were laughing uncontrollably at what the president was saying. The rationale provided was that since these individuals couldn't comprehend what was being said, they were basing the speech on what emotions they heard. According to Sacks, the emotions the patients perceived were less than genuine, that the words passing from the president's lips were not expressed with authentic emotion. (from macalester.edu