Saturday, February 19, 2005
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
To borrow a line from Inspector Clouseau, "The mystery is solv-ed!" (See my post of January 6, 2005). I forgot that I'd never commented on it. So sorry.
Seems the man had a strange syndrome which caused him to function by remembering where things were in the space around him and by keeping to the rhythm of his task. If he was interrupted, even for a moment, he "lost" everything and couldn't recover. In the teaser of a title story, he apparently thought he'd put his hat behind him, where his wife was sitting, and reached for her head. Many of the other stories in the book are more disturbing than amusingly bizarre, so I can't wholeheartedly recommend it.
My next project is trying to find a book about Magellan - something about the edge of the world. Memories...like the corners of my mind...misty watercolored memories...
'night
Seems the man had a strange syndrome which caused him to function by remembering where things were in the space around him and by keeping to the rhythm of his task. If he was interrupted, even for a moment, he "lost" everything and couldn't recover. In the teaser of a title story, he apparently thought he'd put his hat behind him, where his wife was sitting, and reached for her head. Many of the other stories in the book are more disturbing than amusingly bizarre, so I can't wholeheartedly recommend it.
My next project is trying to find a book about Magellan - something about the edge of the world. Memories...like the corners of my mind...misty watercolored memories...
'night
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