Speak, Memory
2013-02-04 19:57:52.781778+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
via a lot of places (includeing MeFi): Oliver Sacks on memory and forgetting and plagiarism in the New York Review of Books:
It is startling to realize that some of our most cherished memories may never have happened—;or may have happened to someone else. I suspect that many of my enthusiasms and impulses, which seem entirely my own, have arisen from others’; suggestions, which have powerfully influenced me, consciously or unconsciously, and then been forgotten. ...