I’ve enjoyed reading in the past week or so:
DENNIS TOWNSHIP, N.J. – A second-grader’s drawing of a stick figure shooting a gun earned him a one-day school suspension.
AVIGNON, France (AFP) – French prosecutors Tuesday requested a hefty fine and a civics course against a woman who planted a lipstick-red kiss on the pure white canvas of a two-million-euro artwork by US artist Cy Twombly.
In March of 1985, Clive Wearing, an eminent English musician and musicologist in his mid-forties, was struck by a brain infection—a herpes encephalitis—affecting especially the parts of his brain concerned with memory. He was left with a memory span of only seconds—the most devastating case of amnesia ever recorded. New events and experiences were effaced almost instantly.
Thanks for the link on Clive Wearing–a fascinating condition. I wonder what can be said for the fact that he so often comes back to the nature and play of language? It is interesting that through pun and wordgames he finds a way to hold on, if only momentarily. It’d be interesting to see if this amazement with language is more commonplace among those with his brand of condition than it is among the non-afflicteds.