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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... thing that has been damaged : the brain and its peculiar mesh of signals and switches that comprise our individual ... Things have gone awry in me . Though I might have sought des- ignation for uniqueness in some other way , at least I ...
... thing that has been damaged : the brain and its peculiar mesh of signals and switches that comprise our individual ... Things have gone awry in me . Though I might have sought des- ignation for uniqueness in some other way , at least I ...
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... things could never be forgotten . Taste , for example , or panache , nobility of heart . The elect , the geniuses of ... thing to reigning , I imagine , was being adored , worshiped , which perhaps explains her theatrical aspira- tions ...
... things could never be forgotten . Taste , for example , or panache , nobility of heart . The elect , the geniuses of ... thing to reigning , I imagine , was being adored , worshiped , which perhaps explains her theatrical aspira- tions ...
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... thing not to trust your own mind . But there are some things we simply cannot think through . Claudius knows this ; it is behind his argument in the play's second scene , when he urges Hamlet to stop his excessive grieving . Such ...
... thing not to trust your own mind . But there are some things we simply cannot think through . Claudius knows this ; it is behind his argument in the play's second scene , when he urges Hamlet to stop his excessive grieving . Such ...
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Damaged Brain | 3 |
Confessions of a Demented Man | 18 |
In the Shadow of Memory | 29 |
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