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Hehe, I always knew Elizabeth Bennett was my literary twin! It's funny b/c James reminds me sooo much of Darcy - ignores you unless you're in his "inner circle". :-)

You're Elizabeth Bennett of Pride and Prejudice by
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I've been thinking about the whole visual agnosia thing. It's disturbing to me when I think about how great a problem it really is in my life - and how I didn't recognize it before. I thought nobody looked at people's faces and actually saw them... or that people on a regular basis see the object they are looking for right in front of them but still don't recognize it. :-)

I've been trying to think of how to describe it, just for my own personal satisfaction, and the best I can come up with is this. It's like looking at "scene" 200 yards away - from where I'm sitting, about that far away is a cluster of palm trees, another cluster of coconut trees, and two other trees regular oak trees.

I can distinguish the oak trees from the palm trees (one has palm frons, the other doesn't). Likewise I can distinguish the Coconut trees from the palm trees (they are shorter and thicker). But I can't distinguish the individual trees from each other because they are too similar, and from this distance, I can't see the detail.

Now imagine that everywhere you look, you see it as though it were 200 yards away... I look at my garden. In the corner I see various bushes - splashes of dark and light green, blotches of pink, purple and orange flowers. However it takes *effort* to stop and consider each item in the "scene". When I look away, I remember that there were blotches of this color or that, and maybe which order they were in, but I cannot remember what the scene was - and I'm looking just four feet away from it.

So 1) my mind doesn't see little details. I don't notice a nose on someone's face unless I'm trying to remember them specifically and focus on committing features to memory. But then I remember The Nose, not The Nose on the Face. And 2) My mind doesn't remember what I've seen - just the bits I've Committed To Memory For Further Identification Purposes... in much the same way I memorize definitions out of a textbook. "When I see estate, I think of property and..." - "When I see Zack, I think of blonde hair, cute button nose, blue eyes. His facial frame is becoming more man-ly, he's thin, tall." But I still can't see him clearly in my mind.

Anyway, that's that about not seeing...