Case I
erased and remixed from case of the same name in Gilles de la Tourette’s “Study of a nervous affliction characterized by motor incoordination with echolalia and coprolalia (Jumping, Latah, Myriachit)”
[Madame de D ..., who is now twenty-six, was beset at the age of seven by convulsive contractions of the hand and arm muscles]
only to
submit
to the next
mischievous child
movements
involuntary
convulsive
extraordinary
bizarre
meaningless
with little change
to her
condition
the pronator muscles
the facial muscles
the muscles
the pathological
interest
the sufferer
the pleasure
the embarrassment
the name of a lack
observable
only in the youngest
of children