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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... head with a hammer while playing in the apartment's courtyard , two blows that crisscrossed the head . He played tackle football on Brooklyn's concrete streets and on his high school team until THE PAINSTAKING HISTORIAN 79.
... head with a hammer while playing in the apartment's courtyard , two blows that crisscrossed the head . He played tackle football on Brooklyn's concrete streets and on his high school team until THE PAINSTAKING HISTORIAN 79.
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... head is " native to the heart . " This notion ignores the primacy of the human heart , by which we usually mean emotion or feeling , as a tool of knowledge . Or rather , of wisdom . We have been taught to fear the estrangement of head ...
... head is " native to the heart . " This notion ignores the primacy of the human heart , by which we usually mean emotion or feeling , as a tool of knowledge . Or rather , of wisdom . We have been taught to fear the estrangement of head ...
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... head , and people in them , acting . People you know , yet can't quite name . I have begun trying to see my mother in this manner . The rooms inside her head are steadily growing dimmer and the people in them , names confused or ...
... head , and people in them , acting . People you know , yet can't quite name . I have begun trying to see my mother in this manner . The rooms inside her head are steadily growing dimmer and the people in them , names confused or ...
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Damaged Brain | 3 |
Confessions of a Demented Man | 18 |
In the Shadow of Memory | 29 |
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