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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... forget " tomatoes " by the time I get there . So I should also have paper handy everywhere . Between looking up a phone number and dialing it , I forget the sequence . I need the whole phone book on my speed dial system . Though they ...
... forget " tomatoes " by the time I get there . So I should also have paper handy everywhere . Between looking up a phone number and dialing it , I forget the sequence . I need the whole phone book on my speed dial system . Though they ...
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... Forget walking on the rolling hillside that surrounds our home , even with the help of my cane . Forget escalators , which are particularly INSID- IOUS . Forget boats or banking airplanes , where the horizon shifts and my connection to ...
... Forget walking on the rolling hillside that surrounds our home , even with the help of my cane . Forget escalators , which are particularly INSID- IOUS . Forget boats or banking airplanes , where the horizon shifts and my connection to ...
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... forget what she did to us when we were growing up . I could remember vivid details even after brain damage tore ... forget the beatings and lavishly orches- trated humiliations , not just sublimate them but truly forget them , and if the ...
... forget what she did to us when we were growing up . I could remember vivid details even after brain damage tore ... forget the beatings and lavishly orches- trated humiliations , not just sublimate them but truly forget them , and if the ...
Contents
Damaged Brain | 3 |
Confessions of a Demented Man | 18 |
In the Shadow of Memory | 29 |
Copyright | |
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