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Date: 2010
"You've put it in the book and in reading it my brain is having a response like 'things as they are are really part of the world and I forgot.' How nice to just feel them roll over the brain! It's like a brain massage!"
preview | full record— Gallagher, Kirsten
Date: 2011
"In contrast, '50 First Dates' utilizes Hawaii as a kind of blank slate, a place emptied of political turmoil and a perfect metaphor for the state of mind produced by the erasure of memory."
preview | full record— Halberstam, Jack [Judith] (b. 1961)
Date: February 15, 2011
"If you want to use a memory palace for permanent storage, you have to take periodic time-consuming mental strolls through it to keep your images from fading."
preview | full record— Foer, Joshua
Date: February 15, 2011
"In other words, natural memory is the hardware you’re born with. Artificial memory is the software you run on it."
preview | full record— Foer, Joshua
Date: 2011
"I could share an hour of warm camaraderie with Dad, then once I'd walked out the door, get the uncanny feeling I'd disappeared into the wings of his mind's stage, like a character no longer necessary to the ongoing story line."
preview | full record— Reagan, Ron (b. 1958)
Date: March 10, 2011
"Richards’s sharpness is surprising coming from a guy whose mind, everyone had to assume, was by now a salvage heap."
preview | full record— Chiasson, Dan
Date: March 24, 2011
"It is like finding that cheese depends on chalk--that soul depends on matter."
preview | full record— McGinn, Colin (b. 1950)
Date: March 24, 2011
"It [neurology] has all the fascination of a horror story--the Jekyll of the mind bound for life to the Hyde of the brain."
preview | full record— McGinn, Colin (b. 1950)
Date: March 11, 2011
"Given the limits of steel and concrete to resist the forces of nature, much depends on people’s own preparedness to face up to disaster -- but that mental infrastructure is in even poorer shape than the nation’s roads and bridges."
preview | full record— Schwartz, John
Date: March 19, 2011
"A chalkboard is a lot like memory: often jumbled, unorganized and sloppy. Even after it's erased, there are traces of everything that's been written on it."
preview | full record— Anonymous
