Quotation

“Synesthesia?” “A neurological term for an unusual phenomenon where stimulating one sensory pathway causes the stimulation of a second. Tasting colors. Seeing sounds. It was a topic of great scientific interest in the early part of the twentieth century, but that interest died out long ago.” === “You know it’s bad form to enter a woman’s boudoir without getting an invitation first.” === ...it was the way he looked at you when you spoke, almost as if he comprehended your feelings better than you did yourself— and as a result she had never felt judged that evening… only understood. === Tourists, or the dot-com billionaires who showed up to display their yachts and pretend to drop in on the Jazz Festival…?