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"Our daily encounters with forgetting have not taught us enough about how much power it exercises over our lives, what reflections and feelings it evokes in different individuals, how even art and science presuppose--with sympathy or...
Review Quotes: "Surveying the 'high' literary and philosophical tradition, he casts forgetting in a new light. Memory loss, as commonly understood, is a form of pathology, an illness, and a cause of great anxiety -- consider the stigma attached to Alzheimer's disease. Weinrich on the other hand shines his beam on cases--both real and fictional--where memory is the burden and forgetting the cure."--The Australian, 21 August 2004