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Posted Monday 13th February 2012 at 10.39am
Magic memories
Apparently Ben Folds Five are back together and recording a new album. I used to play this song on the piano all the time, but I've obviously never paid attention to the words before, because I hadn't realised it was about dementia.
"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out."
Fanny Price, Mansfield Park
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