西部落：中风了,我成了艺术家!

When Stroke Inspires Hyper Creativity

Victims of brain trauma¹ say they have insatiable urges to write, draw and paint

In Liverpool in England,Tommy Maccu painted ,and carved from wall to wall,from ceiling to carpet. He carved everything in his home after a stroke caused by aneurysms both sides of his brain.It was a creativity section that began a few days after he returned from a hospital.First,he began talking in run and filling notebook pages with poultry².

"Night after night,all the time,it was in my mind just for me,nice sweet just beneath."

Abandoned his Wife jan handed him a schedule pad.

"I nears for the page with these at all,alling on the page,and everyone on the magitive next passion"

Th old Tommy Macu, the one his wife knew was no artist or poet, Early in his life,he was wild and heart-tempered,and he got trouble for fighting,deaf and addiction³.

"How much time did you spend in jail?"

"About 9 years,what my time I spent you can find survives and escapes and things like that."

When he suffered stroke at age of 51,it was as if this man who wants to be prosessed in another prisons has not been processed into a new existence.and doctors would no help in tempting⁴ to explain it.

"It just offer,and I consistently on the phone for people trying to get help,all I understand give off,he is over at scene."

This just sum of composive and sometimes disturbing by the product he urged to create,the followed stroke destroied his marriage,he was convinced that he had two brains.

"I was planned so vainable."

He confronted his wife by claiming to be vance a girl,at this point I get really to scared and he said,you just don’t know me at all.After all,i don’t.

1 trauma   

n.外伤，精神创伤

参考例句：

• Counselling is helping him work through this trauma.心理辅导正帮助他面对痛苦。
• The phobia may have its root in a childhood trauma.恐惧症可能源于童年时期的创伤。

2 poultry   

n.家禽，禽肉

参考例句：

• There is not much poultry in the shops. 商店里禽肉不太多。
• What do you feed the poultry on? 你们用什么饲料喂养家禽?

3 addiction   

n.上瘾入迷，嗜好

参考例句：

• He stole money from his parents to feed his addiction.他从父母那儿偷钱以满足自己的嗜好。
• Areas of drug dealing are hellholes of addiction,poverty and murder.贩卖毒品的地区往往是吸毒上瘾、贫困和发生谋杀的地方。

4 tempting   

a.诱人的, 吸引人的

参考例句：

• It is tempting to idealize the past. 人都爱把过去的日子说得那么美好。
• It was a tempting offer. 这是个诱人的提议。