In the Shadow of MemoryIn 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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... damage . One essay is about thinking with a damaged brain and another about the way brain damage changes emotional life . One focuses on the experience of having a riven memory system and an- other on the loss of balance . The last ...
... damage . One essay is about thinking with a damaged brain and another about the way brain damage changes emotional life . One focuses on the experience of having a riven memory system and an- other on the loss of balance . The last ...
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... damaged with their comical way of walking , their odd patterns of speech or ways in which neurological damage is expressed , their apparent stupidity , their abnormality . The damage done to a brain seems to evoke disdain in those who ...
... damaged with their comical way of walking , their odd patterns of speech or ways in which neurological damage is expressed , their apparent stupidity , their abnormality . The damage done to a brain seems to evoke disdain in those who ...
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... damage , but we have as many brain cells at age one as we will ever have . This has been a fundamental tenet of ... damage . One suggests that we do not need all our brain because we only use a small part of it to function . Another is ...
... damage , but we have as many brain cells at age one as we will ever have . This has been a fundamental tenet of ... damage . One suggests that we do not need all our brain because we only use a small part of it to function . Another is ...
Contents
Damaged Brain | 3 |
Confessions of a Demented Man | 18 |
In the Shadow of Memory | 29 |
Copyright | |
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