The Death of Elliot DiMazio

Elliot's knowledge and reasoning were left intact, but the tumor debilitated his ability to empathize and feel. Attending his daughter's piano recital evoked in him all the vibrancy and joyful fatherly pride as buying a new pair of socks. He had become an intellectual and medical curiosity, a pointless novelty. And without that ability to make value judgments, to determine better from worse, no matter how intelligent he was, Elliot lost his self control.