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<font size="2"><i><br>
<font face="Arial">"Sometimes described as
a blending of perceptions, synesthesia occurs when one of
the five senses is aroused, yet two respond."</font><br>
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</i></font><font face="Arial Narrow"><font size="+2"><b><font size="+3"><font color="#6666cc">
BLUE CATS</font><br>
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b</b></font><font size="+2"><b><br>
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and</font></b><font size="+2" color="#6666cc"><b><br>
</b></font><font color="#6666cc"><br>
</font><font size="+2" color="#6666cc"><b>
CHARTREUSE KITTENS</b></font><br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b>How Synesthetes Color Their Worlds</b><br>
<br>
<b>By Patricia Lynne Duffy</b></font><BR>
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<DIV align=center><font face="Arial Narrow" size="3">Foreword by Dr. Peter
Grossenbacher,<BR>National Institute of Mental Health</font></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><font size="2" face="Arial"><i>"Nature,
so endlessly creative, has managed things so that each of
us, hosts of synesthesia or not, perceives a slightly
different world... a world colored by our one-of-a-kind
pattern of neurons and experiences" </i>-- Patricia
Lynne Duffy</font></DIV>
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NEWS RELEASE</b></font></i></font><br>
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<font face="Arial" size="3">"This book is a delight.
Synesthesia is usually called a medical (specifically a neurological) condition,
but Duffy's account persuades me that we should regard it...as...the gift
of enriched perception...She is fortunate enough to be both a journalist
and a synesthete, with the gift for communicating clearly about her other
gift...Her account is not only moving and evocative, but historical and
scientific."<br>
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--Dr. Simon Baron-Cohen, Cambridge University,</font></b></font><font face="Arial"><br>
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Department of Experimental Psychology and Psychiatry</b></font>
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<hr align="Left" width="100%" size="1"><font face="Arial"><br>
<font size="3"><i> A Black,
E White, I Red, U Green, O Blue: vowels</i><br>
<i> One
day I will crack your nascent origins</i><br>
<i> A, hairy
corset of clacking black flies...</i><br>
<i> E, whiteness
of vapors and tents...</i><br>
<i> I, purples,
spit blood, laughter of beautiful lips...</i><br>
<i> U, cycles,
divine vibrations of green seas</i>...</font></font><br>
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<font face="Arial"><font size="3"> In "Voyelles,"
poet Arthur Rimbaud attempts to give words to the intricate processes of
mind and personal perception. In doing so, he gives us all a glimpse
into the world of synesthesia, a fascinating and mysterious neurological
condition that has divided scientists and inspired research for centuries.<br>
<br>
Synesthesia is defined as the ability of an individual to respond simultaneously
to stimuli with multiple senses. For example, a synesthete might (as
Rimbaud did) associate letters with colors, connect tastes with specific
shapes, or even perceive time--a day, a week, a year--as a pattern of linear
images, existing in a four-dimensional way. In <b><i>BLUE CATS AND
CHARTREUSE KITTENS: How Synesthetes Color Their Worlds</i></b>, journalist
and synesthete Patricia Lynne Duffy offers a rare and entertaining glance
into the minds of the individuals who experience this condition.<br>
<br>
Drawing both on her own experiences as a synesthete and those
of brilliant synesthetes past and present, such as poet Baudelaire,
painter David Hockney, composer Franz Liszt, Nobel prize-winning physicist
Richard Feynman, and writer Vladimir Nabokov, Duffy develops an engaging
and accurate analysis of the synesthetic mind. By combining scientific
data such as the different variations of synesthesia, its genetic
components, and the ongoing research devoted to further investigation
of its processes and effects with more anecdotal accounts, she creates
an informative, entertaining, and overwhelmingly human work.<br>
<br>
The 1990's were called the "decade of the brain". With each
passing year and each new research study, scientists learn more and more
about synesthesia and what it teaches us about human perception.
<b><i> BLUE CATS AND CHARTREUSE KITTENS</i></b> is an
important part of these advances. Duffy's book explains synesthesia
in clear, engaging prose, dispelling ideas that this condition is somehow
"made-up" or "strange," and attempting to add humor, personality, and understanding
to those who live with this unique way of perceiving the world.<br>
</font>
<br>
</font>
<div align="Center"><b><font size="3"><font face="Arial">
BLUE CATS AND CHARTREUSE KITTENS<br>
How Synesthetes Color Their Worlds<br>
By Patricia Lynne Duffy<br>
W.H. Freeman/Times Books/Henry Holt &Co.</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">
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</font><font face="Arial">
Publication Date: November 7, 2001<br>
ISBN: 0-7167-4088-5</font></font></b><font face="Arial"><br>
</font>
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<br>
<div align="Center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">For further information, please contact
Pat Duffy at <a href="mailto:[email protected]">
[email protected]</a> </font>
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