Talk:The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

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Numbers don't seem plausible
The article states that it took 200,000 blinks at 2 minutes each to dictate the book. After his stroke, Bauby regained consciousness on December 2, 1995 (according to the Jean-Dominique Bauby page.) The book was published on March 6, 1997. Assuming that Bauby dictated every day in that interval (435 days), he must have worked an average of more than 15 hours a day, which seems unlikely, especially for someone in a dire medical situation. (Of course, he can't have dictated for all those days because his publisher would take at least a week or two to prepare and distribute the book, and he most likely didn't start dictating the book immediately on regaining consciousness.) Tom Duff 18:48, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
 * The article states that it was 2 minutes per word, not 2 minutes per blink :) -Senaiboy (talk) 23:33, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Indeed. The book looks to be about 30,000 words.  If so, the time involved would be about a factor of 7 less than my estimate.  Tom Duff (talk) 02:23, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Discrepancy
There's a discrepancy on the author's date of death (9 March, 1997) and "The book was published on March 6, 1997. Ten days after the French version of the book was published, Bauby died." I've taken the liberty to change it to "two days" (sources on the author's article's talk page) and also changed the date of publication (which cannot be confirmed). -Senaiboy (talk) 23:27, 29 December 2007 (UTC)


 * The end credits of the movie state: "Jean Dominique BAUBY est mort le 9 mars 1997, dix jours apres la parution de son livre 'LE SCAPHANDRE ET LE PAPILLON.'" which means "...Baubt died 9 March 1997, ten days after the publication of his book...." MDWeathers (talk) 06:01, 21 July 2008 (UTC)


 * The "ten days" is possibly explained because books are released prior to their official publication date so that editors and critics have time to write about it before released to the public. Also, sometimes books go on sale a few days prior to the official publication date. So, the movie may be accurate in saying "10 days", but we don't really know without more info. Until then it's best just to say what we know for sure: the date of death, and the books official publication date, and not say how many days lapsed. Green Cardamom (talk) 01:21, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

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Question about choice of words
While I appreciate having learned the word "amanuensis", wouldn't this article convey its own information more efficiently if it just used "assistant"?

Why is the stroke described as 'massive' when locked-in syndrome is caused by stroke to a very limited part of the brainstem - i.e. the vast majority of the brain (midbrain and entire cerebral cortex) is spared?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 163.1.84.1 (talk) 17:08, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Film adaptations
I edited down some of the feature-film information, since this is an article about the book. Details on Schnabel's film are adequately provided in its own article. --Utilizer (talk) 19:43, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

Plot summary
The plot summary spends the entire section talking about how the book was written, and not the contents of the book. This subsection should be renamed or corrected.