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Clive
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The story of a man who’s lost everything. Clive Wearing has what Oliver Sacks calls “the most severe case of amnesia ever documented.” Clive’s wife, Deborah Wearing, tells us the story along with Oliver Sacks. And they try to understand why, amidst so much forgetting, Clive remembers two things: Music and Love.
Thanks to Uden Associates Productions for excerpts from the 1986 film about Clive Wearing, "Equinox: Prisoner of Consciousness."
Deborah's book about Clive: Forever Today
Oliver Sacks' new book: Musicophilia
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The interpreation that Clive lived only for the moment and had no memory of the blink before is patently wrong. If that was the case he could not have a conversation. He certainly has to remember enough, if not all, of the word sting of a sentence so that he could respond intelligently. It would be interesting to see whether there is a limit to his ability to answer a lenghty question? Is the amensia suspended during each Q&A as it is during music? What is it about Q&A and music that are related?
NEED CLIVE LAST NAME OR MUSIC PLAYED AT BEGINNING OF STORY. THANKS
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