can you hear me? .
do you know where you are? do you remember being brought here? do you know what has happened? if she does, she gives no indication. no word or gesture. no change of expression on her mask of a face. she is elsewhere , cut adrift by her illness, living in a private world .
can you hear me? sayer, wearing a white lab coat, tries to read her eyes. behind thick lenses, uncleaned for weeks or months, the eyes are inscrutable. . 
she was found by neighbors with * her sister, several days after the , sister had died . . .
"his gaze from staring through the bars has grown so weary that it can take in nothing more . . .
"for him it is as though there were a thousand bars, and behind the thousand bars, no world . . .
whenever you're ready.
what kind of things?
when did you realize it wasn't? leonard thinks back, trying to recall the exact moment he realized he was "alive.n finally --