Neal Stephenson on the topic of me
Posted on October 8, 2008
Filed Under All, Context, My Brain, New Life |
From Anathem: “I thought that I was like a man lame in one leg, who had learned to move about well enough that all awareness of his disability had passed out of his mind. And yet, when he tried to go on a journey, he kept finding himself back where he had started, since his weak leg made him go in circles.”
Doubtless, Mr. Stephenson did not actually have me in mind when he wrote this, since we don’t know each other, but hemiparetic I definitely resonate with the first part of the sentiment. I don’t feel like mobility is a problem, until I actually get up and try to go somewhere and uncooperative muscles frustrate and burden my progress. When I dream, I walk as I did before the tumor… I never dream of limping me…
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