Oliver Sacks

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

1985

This dwelling on the past and relative hebetude towards the present – this emotional dulling of current feeling and memory – is nothing like Jimmie’s organic amnesia.

An Anthropologist on Mars

1995

Toward the end of the year Greg, normally a sound sleeper, started to sleep poorly, to get up in the middle of the night and wander gropingly for hours around his room.

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

An Anthropologist on Mars