In the Shadow of MemoryU of Nebraska Press, 2004 M09 1 - 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. |
Contenido
Thinking with a Damaged Brain | 3 |
Confessions of a Demented Man | 18 |
In the Shadow of Memory | 29 |
Thoughts on the Loss of Balance | 43 |
Living Memory | 55 |
The Family Story | 69 |
The Painstaking Historian | 71 |
Zip | 87 |
The Year of the 49Star Flag | 132 |
A Measure of Acceptance | 149 |
Kismet | 151 |
Counteracting the Powers of Darkness | 165 |
What Is This and What Do I | 178 |
A Measure of Acceptance | 195 |
Meditations on Hamlet and the Power to Know | 208 |
The Watery Labyrinth | 218 |
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