Oliver Sacks

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41 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2008 last heard Dec 2011

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On Saturday the seventeenth of may, eighteen.

About half an hour after receiving her morning gram of L Dopa.

Mrs.

Y suddenly jumped to her feet.

And before incredulous eyes walk the length of the ward.

What do you think of that, eh?

she exclaimed in a loud, excited voice, What do you think that?

What do you think that?

Having left misses Y on Friday evening, in her usual state of profound immobility, I was awed at the change.

At this time I had had relatively little experience with the dramatic responses to L Dopa which occurred in some postencephalytic patients.

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, she repeated.

I'm a new person, I feel it, I feel it inside.

I'm a brand new person.

I feel so much I can't tell you what I feel.

Everything's going to be a new life now.

Completely motionless and submerged for over twenty years, she had exploded with a vengeance from the shackles which held her.

I thought of prisoners released from jail.

I thought of children released from school.

I thought of the sleeping beauty.

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