Tired and arthritic joints dance the Twist, stroke survivors swing and sway,
aphasiacs sing deeply-retained lyrics, individuals with MS or Parkinson's tap and clap, and those afflicted with degenerative dementia connect with music in a myriad of expressive ways.
Consider the case of "
aphasiacs" [sic], who, "when shown various differently colored skeins of wool on a table top, are consistently unable to arrange them" according to their color patterns.
As with the 'certain
aphasiacs' which preface Foucault's (1970) assessment of the human sciences, who continually arrange and rearrange endless sets of incongruous and heterotopic categories and so undermine the possibility of a stable, coherent syntactic order of things, this uncertainty calls into question the possible utopic unity of a consistent explanation.