Not only are the reflex arcs functioning in the hind limbs despite the damage to the spinal cord at L1 to L2, but the reflex responses are hyperreflexive.

Sacredam! he cried, when his eyes lit upon Buck. Dat one dam bully dog! Eh? How moch?

“… Of course Daddy bailed him out each time and got him lawyered up, so he's never been convicted of anything.”

The scientific study of perimenopause has been going on for decades, and the cultural discussion of this mind and body shift has reached something of a new fever pitch, with several books on the subject coming out this spring and a gaggle of “femtech” companies vowing to disrupt perimenopause.