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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... experience of having a riven memory system and an- other on the loss of balance . The last essay deals with going out into the world as a brain - damaged person , traveling to a place where memory is embedded in the land itself , and ...
... experience of having a riven memory system and an- other on the loss of balance . The last essay deals with going out into the world as a brain - damaged person , traveling to a place where memory is embedded in the land itself , and ...
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... 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 emotion turns Descartes ...
... 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 emotion turns Descartes ...
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... experience educated Reggie and his firm , and that his report educated the insurance company , so everyone now understands the experience of disability , or of living with brain damage . But I know better . My desire for reciprocity ...
... experience educated Reggie and his firm , and that his report educated the insurance company , so everyone now understands the experience of disability , or of living with brain damage . But I know better . My desire for reciprocity ...
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Damaged Brain | 3 |
Confessions of a Demented Man | 18 |
In the Shadow of Memory | 29 |
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