The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

Author:Oliver Sacks [Sacks, Oliver]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Cooking, General, Medical, Neurology, Psychology, Clinical Psychology
ISBN: 9780593466674
Google: Ii5fzgEACAAJ
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2021-09-14T00:17:36.603523+00:00

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*1 A very similar story is related by Luria in The Neuropsychology of Memory, in which the spellbound cabdriver only realized that his exotic passenger was ill when he gave him, for a fare, a temperature chart he was holding. Only then did he realize that this Scheherazade, this spinner of a thousand and one tales, was one of “those strange patients” at the Neurological Institute.

*2 Indeed, such a novel has been written. Shortly after “The Lost Mariner” was published, a young writer named David Gilman sent me the manuscript of his book Croppy Boy, the story of an amnesiac like Mr. Thompson, who enjoys the wild and unbridled license of creating identities, new selves, as he whims, and as he must—an astonishing imagination of an amnesiac genius, told with positively Joycean richness and gusto. I do not know whether it has been published; I am very sure it should be. I could not help wondering whether Mr. Gilman had actually met (and studied) a “Thompson”—as I have often wondered whether Borges’s “Funes,” so uncannily similar to Luria’s Mnemonist, may have been based on a personal encounter with such a mnemonist.

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