Testing on Steel and Glass

“If you open the brain from whence sprang Solomon and Aristotle and separate the lips in the fissure of Sylvius a triangle of cortex will appear. This is the Island of Reil.” Well put, anatomist. We are all careful, men of earth (a blind man can sense a post). Thus Newton pondered on falling apples and a Mixtec carved a humanist in jaguar bone. “How happy I was,” wrote the scientist after a long illness, “when once again I had something to investigate.”