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A World of Mist

THE SHAKESPEARED BRAIN

A THEATRE OF SIMULTANEOUS POSSIBILITIES

Philip Davis pleasures his brain with shifting Shakespearean syntax, measures the results on an electroencephalogram, and finds evidence that powerful writing can literally change the ways in which we think ...

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