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Levin · 12-03-2008, 04:52 PM

The burden of being a Mnemonist

http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2008/...ect_memory.php

Moneyquote:

"Eventually, D.C.'s memory overwhelmed him. He struggled with mental tasks normal people find easy. When he read a novel, he would instantly memorize every word by heart, but miss the entire plot. Metaphors and poetry - though they clung to his brain like Velcro - were incomprehensible. He couldn't even use the phone because he found it hard to recognize a person's voice 'when it changes its intonation...and it does that 20 or 30 times a day.'"

12-03-2008, 04:52 PM	#1
Levin Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 1,484	What ails TripletDaddy The burden of being a Mnemonist http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2008/...ect_memory.php Moneyquote: "Eventually, D.C.'s memory overwhelmed him. He struggled with mental tasks normal people find easy. When he read a novel, he would instantly memorize every word by heart, but miss the entire plot. Metaphors and poetry - though they clung to his brain like Velcro - were incomprehensible. He couldn't even use the phone because he found it hard to recognize a person's voice 'when it changes its intonation...and it does that 20 or 30 times a day.'" __________________ "Now I say that I know the meaning of my life: 'To live for God, for my soul.' And this meaning, in spite of its clearness, is mysterious and marvelous. Such is the meaning of all existence." Levin, Anna Karenina, Part 8, Chapter 12