"Then they betrayed their peculiarities by some chance remark which called forth a stare of surprise, followed by ridicule and a sharp scolding for their silliness, so that the poor little things shrunk back into themselves, and never ventured again to allude to their inner world."
- Sir Francis Galton, writing about the experiences of number form synaesthetes in the 1800s.
http://galton.org/cgi-bin/searchImages/search/essays/pages/galton-1881-fort-rev-visions-sane-persons_2.htm
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