meanwhile back in the Neurals
Apr. 24th, 2012 02:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wytchcroftYes, where was i – sorry? Oh yes, neurological rope for old. Quite so.
Now, i don’t know how many of you out there in the Interland are familiar with the current standard (and standard of) Cognitive Tests but take it from me – they’re bobbins. No, no, they really are – Fisher Price, ‘My First cognitive test’, i swear they’d do better with Fuzzy Felt:
“Aha! I notice that last time you put the tree by the river – why the change now eh? Eh? Significant cognitive impairment i should say, right nurse?”
“Not ‘alf – who ever heard of a tree in the sky?”
“Tis but the mote in God’s eye”, sayeth the impatient outpatient shakeitallaboutpatient.
“Oh very clever i’m sure. Nurse! Code Blue! We’ve got a live one here! Now sonny, no more of your lip, ok? Wise-ass; everyone gots to be a wise-ass.”
So i have been through the procedure albeit at a (not too interesting) routine level – and am now left to ponder the cryptic and ridiculous instructions, most particularly a verbal injunction to “write the word world backwards”
“Write it?! I can’t even say it! I certainly can’t spell it! Dyslexic, hello!”
Write the word world backwards. (No mean typing feat either!)
I realised at once that some joking funster of a bored student must have come up with that one.
Write the word world –
Almost a Burroughs (William S. that is) routine: “All Agents this is CONTROL – breakthrough in the waiting room – cut word lines, cut associations, rub out the right word - write, right, write the word world backwards.”
Write the word world backwards.
Backwards – reversed – as through a glass darkly Alice my dear. In numerous folk traditions the Devil can be summoned by reciting prayers backward before a mirror...
If i were Phil K. Dick such a command would definitely carry a spiritual edge, it would issue forth from the Angel Neurologist in a blinding barrage of pink lasers.
WRITE THE WORD WORLD BACKWARDS.
Why? Phil would wonder, holed up in his room and pondering on it, examining every facet and angle of God’s mysterious instruction. Thousand of anguished words would pile up as he wrestled in private with his exegesis.
But as i am not William Burroughs neither am i Phil Dick – i am not even his down at heel Gnostic alter-ego Horselover Fat (i am Catchaser Thin maybe).
Nevertheless i am intrigued by the order ‘Write the word world backwards’.
*Looks at Neurologist* “Best of three?”
Neurologist: “Le Sigh.”
Now, i don’t know how many of you out there in the Interland are familiar with the current standard (and standard of) Cognitive Tests but take it from me – they’re bobbins. No, no, they really are – Fisher Price, ‘My First cognitive test’, i swear they’d do better with Fuzzy Felt:
“Aha! I notice that last time you put the tree by the river – why the change now eh? Eh? Significant cognitive impairment i should say, right nurse?”
“Not ‘alf – who ever heard of a tree in the sky?”
“Tis but the mote in God’s eye”, sayeth the impatient outpatient shakeitallaboutpatient.
“Oh very clever i’m sure. Nurse! Code Blue! We’ve got a live one here! Now sonny, no more of your lip, ok? Wise-ass; everyone gots to be a wise-ass.”
So i have been through the procedure albeit at a (not too interesting) routine level – and am now left to ponder the cryptic and ridiculous instructions, most particularly a verbal injunction to “write the word world backwards”
“Write it?! I can’t even say it! I certainly can’t spell it! Dyslexic, hello!”
Write the word world backwards. (No mean typing feat either!)
I realised at once that some joking funster of a bored student must have come up with that one.
Write the word world –
Almost a Burroughs (William S. that is) routine: “All Agents this is CONTROL – breakthrough in the waiting room – cut word lines, cut associations, rub out the right word - write, right, write the word world backwards.”
Write the word world backwards.
Backwards – reversed – as through a glass darkly Alice my dear. In numerous folk traditions the Devil can be summoned by reciting prayers backward before a mirror...
If i were Phil K. Dick such a command would definitely carry a spiritual edge, it would issue forth from the Angel Neurologist in a blinding barrage of pink lasers.
WRITE THE WORD WORLD BACKWARDS.
Why? Phil would wonder, holed up in his room and pondering on it, examining every facet and angle of God’s mysterious instruction. Thousand of anguished words would pile up as he wrestled in private with his exegesis.
But as i am not William Burroughs neither am i Phil Dick – i am not even his down at heel Gnostic alter-ego Horselover Fat (i am Catchaser Thin maybe).
Nevertheless i am intrigued by the order ‘Write the word world backwards’.
*Looks at Neurologist* “Best of three?”
Neurologist: “Le Sigh.”
