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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Page 75
... reach the landing on a run . I can cover all four floors in less than a minute and be outside before her screams stop echoing in the stairwell . It is right after one of these beatings , in the fall of 1954 , that I race from the ...
... reach the landing on a run . I can cover all four floors in less than a minute and be outside before her screams stop echoing in the stairwell . It is right after one of these beatings , in the fall of 1954 , that I race from the ...
Page 178
... reach . I remember the sea , a dune that seemed to rise forever , a windblown nimbus at its tip I thought might be God . But even that now seems wrong . Memory is close , but I cannot grasp it . The beach may have been behind my child ...
... reach . I remember the sea , a dune that seemed to rise forever , a windblown nimbus at its tip I thought might be God . But even that now seems wrong . Memory is close , but I cannot grasp it . The beach may have been behind my child ...
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... reach the nursing home in Portland at 10:30 P.M. , almost eleven hours after we left the nursing home in New York . My mother is tired but still has not slept or stopped talking . She no longer re- members that she lived in New York or ...
... reach the nursing home in Portland at 10:30 P.M. , almost eleven hours after we left the nursing home in New York . My mother is tired but still has not slept or stopped talking . She no longer re- members that she lived in New York or ...
Contents
Damaged Brain | 3 |
Confessions of a Demented Man | 18 |
In the Shadow of Memory | 29 |
Copyright | |
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