Dear Memoir
I met your kind in college. It was in Kay Redfield Jamison’s An Unquiet Mind.
[http://www.amazon.com/Unquiet-Mind-Memoir-Moods-Madness/dp/0679763309] Your
pages were musty, your spine well-broken. Your words engulfed
Oliver Sacks
The Courtyards of Rebirth:<br />Oliver Sacks’s <em>Awakenings</em>, Part II
Right now, the allegory I most closely associate with Oliver Sacks
[http://www.oliversacks.com/]‘s Awakenings comes from the moment in C.S. Lewis’s
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
What Ghosts Teach:<br />Oliver Sacks’s <em>Awakenings</em>, Part I
What could being asleep for fifty years, and then awakening, teach a person
about life? You might tell me to Google Washington Irving or the Brothers Grimm
and see what lessons they intended,