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The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, by Iain McGilchrist

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As Nietzsche put it: ‘Compared with music all communication by words is shameless; words dilute and brutalise; words depersonalise; words make the uncommon common.’
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The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
by Iain McGilchrist
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