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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... lost , " he said , " Sometimes I can't even re- member my wife's name , and I've been married thirty - two , thirty ... lost to brain damage . One suggests that we do not need all our brain because we only use a small part of it to ...
... lost , " he said , " Sometimes I can't even re- member my wife's name , and I've been married thirty - two , thirty ... lost to brain damage . One suggests that we do not need all our brain because we only use a small part of it to ...
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... lost , of the preciousness and tenuousness of memory , but also of hope , since he is back and so is some of what I had lost . in As I turned fifty , the world and my place in it looked much differ- ent than I had imagined they would ...
... lost , of the preciousness and tenuousness of memory , but also of hope , since he is back and so is some of what I had lost . in As I turned fifty , the world and my place in it looked much differ- ent than I had imagined they would ...
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... lost the integrity of my mental process , my past and often my present , I sometimes sense images floating away like ghosts too , the familiar transformed in a flash to the strange . I am haunted by what I have missed , though it ...
... lost the integrity of my mental process , my past and often my present , I sometimes sense images floating away like ghosts too , the familiar transformed in a flash to the strange . I am haunted by what I have missed , though it ...
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Damaged Brain | 3 |
Confessions of a Demented Man | 18 |
In the Shadow of Memory | 29 |
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