In the Shadow of MemoryUniversity of Nebraska Press, 2003 - 243 páginas In December 1988 Floyd Skloot was stricken by a virus that targeted his brain, leaving him totally disabled and utterly changed. In the Shadow of Memory is an intimate picture of what it is like to find oneself possessed of a ravaged memory and unstable balance and confronted by wholesale changes in both cognitive and emotional powers. Skloot also explores the gradual reassembling of himself, putting together his scattered memories, rediscovering the meaning of childhood and family history, and learning a new way to be at home in the world. Combining the author’s skills as a poet and novelist, this book finds humor, meaning, and hope in the story of a fragmented life made whole by love and the courage to thrive. |
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Floyd Skloot. being balanced on elbows and knees above your lover , losing your- self in lovemaking , only to find yourself flopping off to the left of her body . Now that's what I call suave . Vision is the third component of the balance ...
Floyd Skloot. being balanced on elbows and knees above your lover , losing your- self in lovemaking , only to find yourself flopping off to the left of her body . Now that's what I call suave . Vision is the third component of the balance ...
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... balance dominates colloquial us- age ; we say they have fallen ill , come down with a disease , or been knocked off their feet . They are flat on their backs . They have dropped out of sight . Recovery is associated with righting ...
... balance dominates colloquial us- age ; we say they have fallen ill , come down with a disease , or been knocked off their feet . They are flat on their backs . They have dropped out of sight . Recovery is associated with righting ...
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... balance , the literal and metaphoric mean- ings seem to converge . I think this is because balance is among that rare category of experience in which , to paraphrase the British sci- entist Nicholas Humphrey's A History of the Mind ...
... balance , the literal and metaphoric mean- ings seem to converge . I think this is because balance is among that rare category of experience in which , to paraphrase the British sci- entist Nicholas Humphrey's A History of the Mind ...
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Thinking with a Damaged Brain | 3 |
Confessions of a Demented Man | 18 |
In the Shadow of Memory | 29 |
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