Kevin Brockmeier Quotes

The Incident Made Her Remember The Story She Had Heard About The Girl Who Was Raised In A Room With No Horizontal Lines. She Couldn't Recall Whether The Story Was True Or Simply A Thought Experiment, But The Room, As She Remembered It, Was Decorated With A Series Of Black Verticle Stripes On The Walls, And The Floor And Ceiling Were Curved To Give The Illusion That The Verticle Stripes Were Continuous. On The Child's First Birthday, The Story Went, She Was Taken Out Of The Room. She Had Learned How To Recognize Verticle Forms, But Not Horizontal Ones, So That If She Was Situated On A Table, Say, Or A Platform, She Would Crawl Right Off The Edge, But She Would Never Run Into The Corner Of A Wall Or The Leg Of A Chair. Her Condition Lasted For About A Month Before Her Visual Sense Finally Corrected Itself.

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