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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... hear me talk . I often come to a complete stop in midsentence , unable to find a word I need , and this silence is an apt reflection of the impulse blockage occurring in my brain . Sit- ting next to Beverly as she drives our pickup ...
... hear me talk . I often come to a complete stop in midsentence , unable to find a word I need , and this silence is an apt reflection of the impulse blockage occurring in my brain . Sit- ting next to Beverly as she drives our pickup ...
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... hear the brain referred to as a machine , a computer - like storage and retrieval system . New research made possible by contemporary technology makes this comparison less convincing than it once sounded , but it still has a certain ...
... hear the brain referred to as a machine , a computer - like storage and retrieval system . New research made possible by contemporary technology makes this comparison less convincing than it once sounded , but it still has a certain ...
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... hear Beverly's brushes knocking against the lip of an empty tomato soup can back there in her studio . All morning , I had written only one line that I could both deci- pher and might be able to keep . Sitting on an island at the ...
... hear Beverly's brushes knocking against the lip of an empty tomato soup can back there in her studio . All morning , I had written only one line that I could both deci- pher and might be able to keep . Sitting on an island at the ...
Contents
Damaged Brain | 3 |
Confessions of a Demented Man | 18 |
In the Shadow of Memory | 29 |
Copyright | |
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