Word: agraphia
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Alexia? The language is that of a literary acrobat cockily performing newly-learned tricks and listening slyly for applause. In one neon-streaked passage, Durrell preens so obviously that his arrogant virtuosity is amusing: "I question myself eagerly. Is this amusia, aphasia, agraphia, alexia. abulia? It is life.''* The narrator, a knockabout literary sort named Lawrence Lucifer, gloats over sex, happily flexes his ability to shock ("I am afraid to shake hands with him, for fear that the skin will slip the bony structure of the hand and come away. It would take so little to produce...
...second stroke that left her "crooked and shrunk up" and led to her death. Says Dr. Brain admiringly: "Dickens shows that he knows that loss of speech is associated with paralysis of the right side of the body and that in such cases there may also be agraphia [inability to write...
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