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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... change . You don't have to be brain damaged to know what this is like . Ill- ness , devastating loss , unanticipated alteration in circumstances : so many of us go through catastrophic life changes that our experience often seems ...
... change . You don't have to be brain damaged to know what this is like . Ill- ness , devastating loss , unanticipated alteration in circumstances : so many of us go through catastrophic life changes that our experience often seems ...
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... changes in my emotional experience interact with changes in my intellectual experience to demand and create a fresh experience of being in the world , an encounter that feels spiritual in nature . I have been rewoven . This concept of ...
... changes in my emotional experience interact with changes in my intellectual experience to demand and create a fresh experience of being in the world , an encounter that feels spiritual in nature . I have been rewoven . This concept of ...
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... changes the radiance of change in us , and give it back to the darkness of our understanding , directionless into the returning cold . I believed these Brooklyn places were of this kind and that there would be a sort of feedback loop ...
... changes the radiance of change in us , and give it back to the darkness of our understanding , directionless into the returning cold . I believed these Brooklyn places were of this kind and that there would be a sort of feedback loop ...
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Damaged Brain | 3 |
Confessions of a Demented Man | 18 |
In the Shadow of Memory | 29 |
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