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"His gaze,
from staring through the bars, -
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- has grown so weary
that it can take in nothing more.
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For him, it is as though
there were a thousand bars -
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- and behind the thousand bars,
no world.
:36:43
As he paces in cramped circles,
over and over, -
:36:48
- his powerful strides are
like a ritual dance around a centre -
:36:51
- where a great will stands paralyzed.
:36:57
At times the curtains of the eye lift
without a sound and a shape enters, -
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- slips through the tightened silence
of the shoulders, -
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- reaches the heart, and dies. "
:37:16
Have you heard of a drug called L-dopa?
It is a synthetic dopamine.
:37:21
Yes, for Parkinson's patients...
:37:25
Why?
:37:31
Excuse me, sorry!
:37:36
100 years would pass
before modern neuropathology -
:37:39
- would allow us to locate the damage
in the Parkinsonian brain.
:37:47
With our development of the drug L-dopa,
we can for the first time promise -
:37:53
- the Parkinsonian patient
a more normal life by administering L...