I has a Tumblr

[rj_anderson]

Now that I'm plunging into revisions for Ultraviolet, I've started a Tumblr full of links and articles connected to the book.

So if you're interested in a sneak peek at some of the ideas behind the story, or just curious about unusual sensory phenomena, mental illness, and/or Northern Ontario, you may want to check out Synaesthesis.

Comments

[mary-j-59.livejournal.com]

I had a look at this from your twitter, and it's fascinating. Just curious, though - what's a tumblr? I know what a tumbler is! (a glass into which one tumbles ice cubes!)

Also - I was a bit shocked at one of the links. Since when has synaesthesia been considered insanity? Messiaen was a synaesthete! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Messiaen

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

So was Nabokov, and many other famous creative people. However, it's only in relatively recent years that synaesthesia has been taken seriously and begun to be tested and investigated as a scientific phenomenon. Prior to that it was little known and often misunderstood (and sometimes still is). Many synaesthetes are hesitant to talk about their experiences for fear of being thought crazy -- or because reactions from friends and family lead them to believe that there is something wrong with them.