I have always supposed this to be because Gould suffered from hypergraphia. |
But when you carry your analysis of a subject so very far beyond what that subject can actually withstand, what you are verging on is a kind of hypergraphia. |
Compulsive writing, or hypergraphia, is a well-known, if uncommon, symptom of temporal lobe epilepsy. |
Scientists studying the effects of temporal lobe epilepsy, for which hypergraphia is a symptom, tested for it by asking patients for letters describing their state of health. |