There are people in this world, who look just like you and me, and yet they are different: they possess (or at least believed to possess) some very special talent, or more accurately, some kind of extraordinary ability to sense and feel the world in a different way. I am not referring to people with eidetic memory and supercomputer like brains, but those who literally "sense" the world differently; they are people who have developed a way of relating to objects in a way that is lacking in the rest of us. For example, I once watched a documentary which interviewed a girl for whom tastes of different foods corresponded to different geometric shapes. It was a fascinating piece of information: how does it feel to put a slice of an orange in your mouth and instead of finding it to be sweet or sour, you start to think whether it is circular enough or a little squarish? Queerish indeed.
