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...acclaimed for developing a technique so accurate that an FBI agent who has worked with her likens the results to "something drawn from a photograph." Among her creations: the iconic portrait of the Unabomber - a dead ringer for a young Ted Kaczynski, as well as the near mirror-image drawing of Polly Klaas' killer, Richard Allen Davis. Her secret? A diligent reading - and application - of memory science...
...ecclesiophobia: ... church eisoptrophobia: ... mirrors, or seeing oneself in a mirror electrophobia: ... electricity eleutherophobia: ... freedom emetophobia: ... vomiting enetophobia: ... pins enochlophobia: ... crowds enosiophobia: ... committing an unpardonable sin entomophobia: ... insects eosophobia: ... dawn or daylight epistaxiophobia: ... nosebleeds epistemophobia: ... knowledge equinophobia: ... horses eremophobia: ... being oneself ereuthrophobia: ... blushing ergophobia: ... work erotophobia: ... sexual love euphobia: ... hearing good news eurotophobia: ... female genitalia...
Heraclitus's second most famous saying (after, "You can't step in the same river twice") is, "The way up and the way down are the same." Every public figure in America ought to have this taped to the bathroom mirror. The mysterious philosopher wrote the line 2,500 years ago, but he might as well have been talking about, say, Alan Greenspan...
...acclaimed for developing a technique so accurate that an FBI agent who has worked with her likens the results to "something drawn from a photograph." Among her creations: the iconic portrait of the Unabomber--a dead ringer for a young Ted Kaczynski, as well as the near mirror-image drawing of Polly Klaas' killer, Richard Allen Davis. Her secret? A diligent reading--and application--of memory science...
...subtleties of that headshot explain a lot about the subtle difficulties of re-encountering one's own writing. Photographs, it's said, always seem off, because the image they present (horizontally) reverses the image one typically sees in the mirror. The inevitable dissymetries of the human face make this reversal slightly disconcerting. And perhaps this is the best way to explain the differences I find coming to my ink-smudged text on Monday mornings, coming as a reader, no longer approaching from the inside...