Brilliant Light
Oliver Sacks’s 1999 memoir of his early years. “Many of my childhood memories are of metals: these seemed to exert a power on me from the start.”
"Many of my childhood memories are of metals: these seemed to exert a power on me from the start. They stood out, conspicuous against the heterogeneousness of the world, by their shining, gleaming quality." Sacks on his early fascination with chemistry.