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233 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1971
Again and again I tell people I've become a totally different person since my injury, that I was killed March 2, 1943, but because of some vital power of my organism, I miraculously remained alive. Still, even though I seem to be alive, the burden of this head wound gives me no peace. I always feel as if I'm living out a dream -- a hideous, fiendish nightmare -- that I'm not a man but a shadow, some creature that's fit for nothing....Wait a second! If Luria's patient is unable to read, how can he write? In the end, he wrote some 3,000 pages. Apparently, the bullet that crashed into his brain did not affect his motor skills, and if he did not think too hard about what he was writing, Zazetsky was able to write based on his substantial education. Curiously, he had trouble reading what he had written.