A reader’s waking nightmare

From Oliver Sacks, A Neurologist’s Notebook, A Man of Letters, The New Yorker, June 28, 2010:

On the morning of July 31, 2001, Canadian novelist Howard Engel awoke and discovered that he could not read the newspaper. His room looked normal, and he could still read his clock, but his books were all unintelligible….

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Rachel Khedoori