I am posting this to both the lowercase list and the Fluxlist, as I think it will
interest people on both lists.
I cam across the following bit in the book "Aldous Huxley: A Biography" by Sybille
Bedford. On page 494, she quotes from a letter Huxley (one of my favorite writers)
wrote in 1952:
"And talking of unorthodoxies, I am asking a curious and interesting Danish
acquaintance of mine, Dr. Christian Volf, who is an expert on hearing, to send me care
of you [his bother Julian], one of the special recordings he has made for relief of
sinus trouble. One listens through earphones to a record of synthetic sounds in the
lowest musical octave and the effect is to give an intense internal massage, vibrating
the bones of the skull... I have heard of many people who keep sinusitis at bay simply
by listening to the record every morning before breakfast."
Searches on "Christian Volf" on Altavista and Google have turned up nothing.
-Josh Ronsen
http://www.nd.org/jronsen
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