From Oliver Sacks’ “The Case of Anna H.” (The New Yorker: 7 October 2002: 64):
I recently received a letter from Howard Engel, a Canadian novelist, who told me that he had a somewhat similar problem following a stroke: “The area affected,” he relates, “was my ability to read. I can write, but I can’t read what I’ve just written … So, I can write, but I can’t rewrite …”
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Posted on April 20th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
Categories: On Writing, science, weird
Tags: brain, paradox, problem, psychology, science, the_new_yorker, weird, writing