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EDITOR's RESPONSE. The term is "synaesthesia", often called "colored
hearing" or "audition coloree. Strangely enough the most detailed
examination of this phenomenon is in the first chapter in a book called
_Worlds in Regression: Some Novels of Vladimir Nabokov_ by D. Barton Johnson
(Ardis: Ann Arbor, 1985)
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From: Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@hotpop.com>
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>Does anyone know the exact nature of the condition Nabokov talks about in
>Speak, Memory' - of visualising the letters of the alphabet as different
>colours? I'm certain I've heard it talked of as a condition experienced by
>many intensely artistic people, where sensations are experienced by the
>wrong (or by more than one) sense. Does anyone know the name?
>
>Thanks,
>Camille Scaysbrook
hearing" or "audition coloree. Strangely enough the most detailed
examination of this phenomenon is in the first chapter in a book called
_Worlds in Regression: Some Novels of Vladimir Nabokov_ by D. Barton Johnson
(Ardis: Ann Arbor, 1985)
-----Original Message-----
From: Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@hotpop.com>
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>----------------- Message requiring your approval (19
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>Does anyone know the exact nature of the condition Nabokov talks about in
>Speak, Memory' - of visualising the letters of the alphabet as different
>colours? I'm certain I've heard it talked of as a condition experienced by
>many intensely artistic people, where sensations are experienced by the
>wrong (or by more than one) sense. Does anyone know the name?
>
>Thanks,
>Camille Scaysbrook