in korsakov's, or in dementia, or other such catastrophes, however great the organic damage and... dissolution, there remains the undiminished possibility of reintegration by art, by communion, by touching the human spirit: and this can be preserved in what seems at first a hopeless state of neurological devastation. - the lost mariner, oliver sacks
a reminder that we know some but not perhaps much, and so hope is a currency that the wise physician would borrow from the priest.
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