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We are absurdly accustomed to the miracle of a few written signs being able to contain immortal imagery, involutions of thought, new worlds with live people, speaking, weeping, laughing.?.?.?. What if we awake one day, all of us, and find ourselves utterly unable to read?—Vladimir Nabokov, Pale FireJoseph-Jules Déjerine’s DiscoveryOn a beautiful Paris morning in October 1887, Mr. C, a well-read retired salesman and music lover, was comfortably ensconced in an armchair reading a good book when he suddenly found, to his dismay, that he could no longer read a word! For several days previously, he