“We hallucinate sounds more often than sights. There are auditory mirages, which vanish without trace; auditory illusions that turn out to be something other than they seemed; and, of course, voices that speak to saints, seers, and psychotics, telling them how to act and what to believe.”

Source: A Natural History of the Senses (1990), Chapter 4 “Hearing” (p. 180)

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Author, poet, naturalist 1948

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