THE SKIMMER

摘要

It's not exactly a knock on Dr. Oliver Sacks to say his writing recalls that of Sigmund Freud, who wrote with alacrity and (rather naive) fascination about the idiosyncratic psychiatric problems of Viennese society people. Similarly, Sacks has developed a modern brand as a physician-writer, one who can chronicle the weird neurological ephemera of his high-class patients in a way that sounds partly like a new episode of House and partly like a Victorian novel.