My Life With Latro

The Urth list — 4 messages, 4 voices, 01 Apr 2009
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Adam Thornton01 Apr 2009, 03:07
So, someone important in my life is undergoing a medical treatment that, among its side effects, includes the inability to convert short- term memories to long-term. (This, by the way, may go some way towards explaining, if not excusing, my current truculence, which Brunians correctly noted; my fuse is very short right now.) It is fascinating. It is also hard as hell to deal with day-to-day (in some ways harder than the person who can't remember anything), but once this phase of my life is over and normality has reasserted itself, I really look forward to re-reading the Soldier books. Adam
Matthew Keeley01 Apr 2009, 04:21

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On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Adam Thornton <adam at io.com> wrote: So, someone important in my life is undergoing a medical treatment that, among its side effects, includes the inability to convert short-term memories to long-term. It is fascinating. ?It is also hard as hell to deal with day-to-day (in some ways harder than the person who can't remember anything), but once this phase of my life is over and normality has reasserted itself, I really look forward to re-reading the Soldier books. Adam
Best of luck to you and your important person. Perhaps watch Memento as well? And books on forgetting: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/apr/18/top10s.forgetting (Looks like they forgot Latro) Again, best of luck -Matt
Fred Kiesche01 Apr 2009, 14:48

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My father has gotten to the point where short-term and long-term memories are completely intermixed. Reality is intermixed with fantasy. You never know what he is going to say. And forget trying to correct him; he gets very angry when you point out, for example, that he isn't the CEO of A.T. & T. F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.) Blogging at The Lensman's Children and TexasBestGrok! --- On Tue, 3/31/09, Adam Thornton <adam at io.com> wrote: From: Adam Thornton <adam at io.com> Subject: (urth) My Life With Latro To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net> Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 11:07 PM So, someone important in my life is undergoing a medical treatment that, among its side effects, includes the inability to convert short-term memories to long-term. (This, by the way, may go some way towards explaining, if not excusing, my current truculence, which Brunians correctly noted; my fuse is very short right now.) It is fascinating. It is also hard as hell to deal with day-to-day (in some ways harder than the person who can't remember anything), but once this phase of my life is over and normality has reasserted itself, I really look forward to re-reading the Soldier books. Adam
brunians at brunians.org01 Apr 2009, 15:48

↳ in reply to Fred Kiesche

Better off than this old immigrant I tended to when I was working in nursing: poor bugger thought he was back in the concentration camp. .
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My father has gotten to the point where short-term and long-term memories are completely intermixed. Reality is intermixed with fantasy. You never know what he is going to say. And forget trying to correct him; he gets very angry when you point out, for example, that he isn't the CEO of A.T. & T. F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.) Blogging at The Lensman's Children and TexasBestGrok! --- On Tue, 3/31/09, Adam Thornton <adam at io.com> wrote: From: Adam Thornton <adam at io.com> Subject: (urth) My Life With Latro To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net> Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 11:07 PM So, someone important in my life is undergoing a medical treatment that, among its side effects, includes the inability to convert short-term memories to long-term. (This, by the way, may go some way towards explaining, if not excusing, my current truculence, which Brunians correctly noted; my fuse is very short right now.) It is fascinating. It is also hard as hell to deal with day-to-day (in some ways harder than the person who can't remember anything), but once this phase of my life is over and normality has reasserted itself, I really look forward to re-reading the Soldier books. Adam _______________________________________________

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