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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... keep bees in a small grove for a season or two , but the hive failed and now there are only wild bees on the ... keeps threatening to add it to the Superfund cleanup list . I still equated the city with self - sufficiency . But after ...
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... keeps changing through updates intended to humil- iate the brain damaged . Weeks of repetition were needed for me to ... keep in the bedside table or on the living room credenza or on the washing machine in the bathroom or in the glove ...
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... keep the house clean is we do not . Cats , famous for personal cleanliness , their finicky licking of themselves and each other , track in all sorts of Dirt , bringing dried fir needles , twigs , bark dust , mud , deadlife . This ...
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Damaged Brain | 3 |
Confessions of a Demented Man | 18 |
In the Shadow of Memory | 29 |
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