Bauby, J.-D. (1997). Le scaphandre et le papillon. Paris: Robert Laffont. English translation by J. Leggatt, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Knopf, 1997).
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For CASE-107: the best-known first-person record of a lucid life with world-directed action reduced to one eyelid. Its method of composition is itself the case: every judgement that reached a reader passed through an action channel.