What Do You Have a Taste For?

Giant BLT, Claes Oldenberg (MOMA)This is a common question around dinnertime.In Sartre's Psychology of the Imagination, he describes his experience of "Entoptic Lights", visual artifacts resulting from damage to the optic nerve from a flu virus he had in childhood. It is essentially a form of "acquired synesthesia.""About half an hour after going to bed I see a number of brilliant pointed stars