Forgive and Forget

For the human con­di­tion, for­get­ting is at least as important as remem­bering — some­times more so. Without it, we are all bound to lead the miser­able life of A. R. Luria’s patient Solomon Shereshevsky, who was crippled by his bound­less, indelible memory, or his fic­tional coun­ter­part, Jorge Luis Borges’s Funes.

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