but can you write self-important blogs?
This is from A General Theory of Love - Mr. Underwood was 67, and his family took him to the hospital because he seemed confused: "Subsequent investigation revealed that he had Korsakoff's syndrome--the destruction of some vital pieces of the explicit memory system caused, in this case, by decades of heavy drinking. With no capacity to recall anything he had seen or done after the damage to his brain, Mr. Underwood became locked into an unchanging present. He always thought it was 1985, and he always thought that Ronald Reagan was president. He was continually perplexed to find himself in the hospital, because patiently provided explanations evaporated from his mind within minutes of delivery. His regular doctors and nurses were strangers to him, and every encounter necessitated a fresh round of introductions. He enjoyed telling jokes--often the same joke three of four times in ten minutes, the old an blissfully unaware that repetition had robbed his punchlines of any possibility of punch.... If Mr. Underwood's drinking had devastated his explicit memory machine, how can he remember anything? How can he remember that Reagan was president in 1985, or his wife's name, or his? .... A patient like Mr. Underwood was taught to braid--a skill he was unacquainted with before his explicit memory expired. After he has mastered it, experimenters asked him if he knew how to braid. He replied "No," a truthful statement from his point of view. Yet when three strips of cloth were placed in his hands he wove them together without hesitation."
Whatever, wetbrain is a myth. Mr. Underwood's a comedian and a hero. Whooping cough, however, is NOT a myth. Just ask J.Lo.
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