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NEUROLOGIC OXYMORON
This past summer while swimming in 80 °F waters in the Mediterranean, I was approached by a European friend who pointed at my bright red cap which I had picked up at the AAN exhibit and said, “Hey, that hot cap is cool!” Feeling my cap, I said aloud, “I just caught an oxymoron!” My friend looked around somewhat startled and then asked, “What’s an oxymoron—a jelly-fish?”
Over the next few days, having nothing better to do, I engaged in a vigorous mental exercise hunting for oxymorons. First, I checked the dictionary: “A figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous seemingly self-contradictory effect.” The search for oxymorons in summer reading is a rewarding armchair exercise. Novels are plagued with statements like “… feeling persecuted, the crippled old man initiated a fast slow-pace,” or “… during that blazing summer the sudden, fierce storms felt like a kind cruelty.” My fun was to find a neurologic oxymoron. I then remembered my days in residency training. We were making attending rounds, the junior resident had just started his rotation and was asked to present his case: “This is a 56-year-old man with a long-standing paraplegia….”
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