Rouaud's narration is an exercise in hyperawareness; it is a vision of a world magnified in the dewdrops of an extreme sensibility.

What is it to be a boy in the scouts? What resources of communication give expression to boyness?

… queer sexuality, and what the pleasures and costs of such representations might be for both individual spectators and culture at large.

The disconjugate nystagmus, head titubation, and torticollis of spasmus nutans have been reported as indisinguishable from those associated with glioma of the anterior visual pathway.