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It was psychotic and compulsive, but eventually I started recognizing patterns in his voice and the kind of tics and bits he was doing, and then embodying them.

When he eventually explodes into thinking, delivering a monologue of disordered intellectual half-thoughts and rhetorical tics, the stage convulses in Lewis Carroll absurdity.

Tourette's syndrome is a condition that causes people to make involuntary movements or sounds, called tics.

Many people with Tourette's can suppress their tics for a while, but often describe the experience as exhausting and uncomfortable.

Although he's long exhibited this rhetorical tic, in recent days he's really outdone himself.