Jan 2, 2013
Marilyn Monroe
Actress, singer and model (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962).
She has that displacement of the senses which others take drugs to find. So she is like a lover of rock who sees vibrations when he hears sounds.
— Norman Mailer Marilyn: A Biography p. 47
Her surviving niece, the author Mona Rae Miracle, confirms Mailer's impression although she admits they never called it synesthesia in their time: "Synesthesia is a term Marilyn and I were unaware of; in the past, we simply spoke of the characteristic experiences with terms such as 'extraordinary sensitivity' and/or 'extraordinary imagination.'"