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| + | "My name is Alice, but — " | ||
| + | "It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. "What does it mean?" | ||
| + | "Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully. | ||
| + | "Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh: "my name means the shape I am — and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost." | ||
From that day onwards, the silver fox would live in a world of past memories, unaware that he had a problem forming new ones. By way of compensation, like many Korsakoff's sufferers, he would fill in gaps by confabulating plausible but nonetheless crazy stories. "I think i saw you at the ball park, " he might say to someone he had just met. "That hot dog was great, wasn't it?" The urge to fabricate experieneces probably grows out of a need to save face. Many alcoholics do it in the early stages of the sundrome, and while it is an intersting component of memory loss, it is not a necessary one. | From that day onwards, the silver fox would live in a world of past memories, unaware that he had a problem forming new ones. By way of compensation, like many Korsakoff's sufferers, he would fill in gaps by confabulating plausible but nonetheless crazy stories. "I think i saw you at the ball park, " he might say to someone he had just met. "That hot dog was great, wasn't it?" The urge to fabricate experieneces probably grows out of a need to save face. Many alcoholics do it in the early stages of the sundrome, and while it is an intersting component of memory loss, it is not a necessary one. | ||
- 76, Reaching down the rabbit hole, allan ropper | - 76, Reaching down the rabbit hole, allan ropper | ||
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"I'm just one hundred and one, five months and a day." "I can't believe that!" said Alice. "Can't you?" the Queen said in a pitying tone. "Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes." Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said: "one can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." Alice in Wonderland
"My name is Alice, but — " "It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. "What does it mean?" "Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully. "Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh: "my name means the shape I am — and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost."
From that day onwards, the silver fox would live in a world of past memories, unaware that he had a problem forming new ones. By way of compensation, like many Korsakoff's sufferers, he would fill in gaps by confabulating plausible but nonetheless crazy stories. "I think i saw you at the ball park, " he might say to someone he had just met. "That hot dog was great, wasn't it?" The urge to fabricate experieneces probably grows out of a need to save face. Many alcoholics do it in the early stages of the sundrome, and while it is an intersting component of memory loss, it is not a necessary one. - 76, Reaching down the rabbit hole, allan ropper
