Friday, 13 July 2018

Dismembered


"We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust's jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection."

 in Hallucinations (2012), Oliver Sacks, neurologist and writer (1933-2015)
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