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 36
... trying to understand how to make my shoes stay on , since tying the laces was proving impossible . I tried to put my blue wristband over my head like a headband and could not understand how it had shrunk so much on the flight across ...
... trying to understand how to make my shoes stay on , since tying the laces was proving impossible . I tried to put my blue wristband over my head like a headband and could not understand how it had shrunk so much on the flight across ...
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... trying to remember where she's seen us before . Or perhaps just struggling to bring someone , anyone , into focus . Then I see she is pursing and smoothing her lips , a gesture I remember from childhood ; she is trying to figure ...
... trying to remember where she's seen us before . Or perhaps just struggling to bring someone , anyone , into focus . Then I see she is pursing and smoothing her lips , a gesture I remember from childhood ; she is trying to figure ...
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Floyd Skloot. As though picking up the knot of confusions and trying to find the magic strand , Irv asks , “ What's ... tried to dance with my mother , the girls with whom my mother no longer plays cards because they're all jealous that ...
Floyd Skloot. As though picking up the knot of confusions and trying to find the magic strand , Irv asks , “ What's ... tried to dance with my mother , the girls with whom my mother no longer plays cards because they're all jealous that ...
Contents
Damaged Brain | 3 |
Confessions of a Demented Man | 18 |
In the Shadow of Memory | 29 |
Copyright | |
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