The left side of my brain had been shut down like a damaged section of a spinship being sealed off, airtight doors leaving the doomed compartments open to vacuum. I could still think. Control of the right side of my body soon returned. Only the language centers had been damaged beyond simple repair. The marvelous organic computer wedged in my skull had dumped its language content like a flawed program. The right hemisphere was not without some language-but only the most emotionally charged units of communication could lodge in that affective hemisphere; my vocabulary was now down to nine words. {This, I learned later, was exceptional, many victims of CVAs retain only two or three.} For the record, here is my entire vocabulary of manageable words: fuck, shit, piss, cunt, goddamn, motherfucker, asshole, peepee, and poopoo;
( Dan Simmons )
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