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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Ilaine who wrote (61267)4/23/2008 9:21:59 PM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (5) of 541929
 
Now Cobe, you know recent memory is the first to go. ;)

I'm reading a strange book called Spilling Clarence, about a small town whose pharmaceutical company has a leak, spilling into the air some chemical that activates all the suppressed memories in your brain. People are going insane, especially the old in nursing homes who are just flattened by reliving their loved ones' deaths, war experiences, old hurts. We protect ourselves a great deal from pain, and the brain has a great way of rewriting narratives. (In fact, I couldn't help but think about Hillary and Bosnia as I read last night).

Most of my memory lapses are words. But today I had the weird experience of practicing the piano for a couple of hours, then running in here to post, and my fingers couldn't make the adjustment from a musical keyboard to the computer keyboard.
It was an eerie feeling, like my fingers were completely independent of my brain, had no idea where the right keys were.
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