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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... took intellect to master my art , then the right when she sang Zip ! Who the hell is Margie Hart ? Even from where I sat , even if I looked somewhere else on stage , I could see the strange , inward - turning expression of joy in my ...
... took intellect to master my art , then the right when she sang Zip ! Who the hell is Margie Hart ? Even from where I sat , even if I looked somewhere else on stage , I could see the strange , inward - turning expression of joy in my ...
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... took him longer than any of the participants had antici- pated . In fact , Rodgers finally nudged O'Hara with a telegram say- ing " SPEAK TO ME JOHN SPEAK TO ME . " One wonders whether O'Hara took so long in part because he felt the ...
... took him longer than any of the participants had antici- pated . In fact , Rodgers finally nudged O'Hara with a telegram say- ing " SPEAK TO ME JOHN SPEAK TO ME . " One wonders whether O'Hara took so long in part because he felt the ...
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... took in , keeping elaborate diaries of my running with details added of sleep and weight and estimated calories burned . Never smoked , logged nearly twenty- five hundred miles of running a year , ate all the miracle foods from oat bran ...
... took in , keeping elaborate diaries of my running with details added of sleep and weight and estimated calories burned . Never smoked , logged nearly twenty- five hundred miles of running a year , ate all the miracle foods from oat bran ...
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Damaged Brain | 3 |
Confessions of a Demented Man | 18 |
In the Shadow of Memory | 29 |
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