A review by superdilettante
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology by Lawrence Weschler
4.0
To review this book, I quote Michael Pollan, in The Botany of Desire.
"by the grace of [cannabis-induced] forgetting, we temporarily shelve our inherited ways of looking and see things as if for the first time, so that even something as ordinary as ice cream becomes ICE CREAM!
There is another word for this extremist noticing--this sense of first sight unencumbered by knowingness, by the already-been-there's and seen-thats of the adult mind--and that word, of course, is WONDER."
"by the grace of [cannabis-induced] forgetting, we temporarily shelve our inherited ways of looking and see things as if for the first time, so that even something as ordinary as ice cream becomes ICE CREAM!
There is another word for this extremist noticing--this sense of first sight unencumbered by knowingness, by the already-been-there's and seen-thats of the adult mind--and that word, of course, is WONDER."