The basic flaw in Mr. M.N.Huda's reasoning (Dawn, Aug 6) in his apparent assumption that nothing would be discernible in a man who has lost his soul and received another man's soul. If the souls were really switched, as he asserts, Dr. Blaiberg should logically have emerged from the operation a completely different person, with the mind, memory and personality of the donor of his new heart. But this did not happen, as anyone can verify by reading Dr. Blaiberg's "To the last heart-beat.
I remember two novels based on this theme, which Mr. Huda would do well to go through. They are Edgar Wallace's "Captain Of Souls" and "The Little Nugget" by P.G. Wodehouse.
Shakir Lakhani
Karachi
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