12-03-2008, 04:52 PM | #1 |
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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.'"
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