By Oliver Sacks
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If proprioception is completely knocked out, the body becomes, so to speak, blind and deaf to itself—and (as the meaning of the Latin root proprius hints) ceases to ‘own’ itself, to feel itself as itself (see Chapter Three, ‘The Disembodied Lady’). The old man suddenly became intent, his brows knitted, his lips pursed. He stood motionless, in deep thought, presenting the picture that I love to see: a patient in the actual moment of discovery—halfappalled, half-amused—seeing for the first time exactly what is wrong and, in the same moment, exactly what there is to be done.
He said. ‘You’re fooling me! ’ ‘I’m not kidding,’ I said. ’ He saw from my face that I was perfectly serious—and a look of utter terror came over him. ‘You say it’s my leg, Doc? ’ ‘Absolutely,’ I answered. ‘He should know his own leg. I can’t imagine him not knowing his own leg. ’ ‘I swear to God, cross my heart, I haven’t ... ’ I asked in bewilderment, being, by this time, as bewildered as he was. ’ He repeated my words slowly. ‘I’ll tell you what it looks like. It looks like nothing on earth.
Obviously one of the nurses with a macabre sense of humor had stolen into the Dissecting Room and nabbed a leg, and then slipped it under his bedclothes as a joke while he was still fast asleep. He was much relieved at the explanation; but feeling that a joke was a joke, and that this one was a bit much, he threw the damn thing out of the bed. But—and at this point his conversational manner deserted him, and he suddenly trembled and became ashen-pale—when he threw it out of bed, he somehow came after it—and now it was attached to him.