Quotes by Floyd Skloot - Page 1

When memories fade, can one ever really return home?
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Memories
Return
Fade
Return Home
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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Creepy
Introverted
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Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.
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Observation
Output
Slim
Brief
Marked
Nonetheless
Piercing
Powers
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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Dementia
Details
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Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do.
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Host
Patient
Clinical
Observe
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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Certain
Loss
Living
Aspects
Forgetting
Happening
Memory
Strangest
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In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.
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Married
Moved
Spring
Woods
Myself Doing Never
Beverly
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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
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Memories
Sticks
Motion
Sets
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Most people imagine music playing in their heads, but some hallucinate music; some cannot sleep because of the soundtrack in their mind.
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Music Mind People
Heads
Soundtrack
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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Connected
Function
Quickness
Spark
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Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice.
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Extending
Observant
Publishing
Range
Deepening
Playful
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I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.
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Genre
Basis
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I became demented overnight. Sudden onset is one factor that distinguishes my form of dementia from the more common form associated with Alzheimer's disease.
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Demented
Disease
Associated
Distinguishes
Factor
Overnight
Sudden
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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Coal
Conditions
Harsh
Mining
Tradition
Long Tradition
Readers
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In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.
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Alchemy
Optics
Valuable
Bank
Rare
Turning
Captures
Fundamental
Images
Writes
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'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'
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Core
Love Story
Principal
Timely
Wartime
Student
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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
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Conventional
Details
Disappoint
Biography
Literary
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In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O'Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived with this autoimmune disease for 14 years, primarily confined to her mother's farm, Andalusia, in Milledgeville, Ga.
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Confined
Disease
Complications
Farm
Primarily
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My cerebral cortex, the gray matter that MIT neuroscientist Steven Pinker likens to 'a large sheet of two-dimensional tissue that has been wadded up to fit inside the spherical skull,' is riddled instead of whole.
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Cerebral
Gray
Mit
Two-Dimensional
Riddled
Sheet
Skull
Steven
Tissue
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A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.
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Focus
Imbalance
Intensity
Lofty
Plot
Prose
Risk
Engine
Literary
Flatten
Ignore
Lose
Stall
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Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel with novels set in exotic places. Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Honduras - he lives in and writes about places most of us never see.
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Travel
Exotic
Honduras
Nonfiction
Singapore
Africa
Mixed
Paul
Places
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Science trumps magical thinking: there was a reason the Incas called their mercury mine 'la mina de los muertos,' the mine of the dead. Building a life and a community upon principles that ignore such realities is doomed to fail.
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Doomed
Mercury
Principles
Life Science Thinking
Ignore
La
Los
Magical
Realities
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When Beverly and I got together in 1992, and I moved to be with her in the little round house she'd built in the middle of 20 acres of woods near Amity, I found myself immersed in a natural setting that I responded to with all my being.
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Acres
Amity
Setting
Woods
Beverly
Round
Immersed
Near
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My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.
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Fiber
Helping
Musician
Painter
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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
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Components
Delirium
Imagine
Twice
Across
Scale
Basic
Version
Dash
Street
Life Way Your
Resembles
Vastly
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Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.
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Damage
Driven
Fountain
Ideology
Mercury
Life Nature Science
Factor
Implacable
Inflict
Neglecting
Real People
Truths
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I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.
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Bravado
Certainty
Forgotten
Mindless
Experience Moment Me
My Self
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In question-and-answer sessions after a reading or during an interview, I forget the question if I'm giving too long an answer. And at the end, I can't remember any of the questions. The more anxious I am about remembering, the more likely I am to forget.
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Anxious
Interview
Remembering
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Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
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Affected
Assault
Brain
Damage
Dementia
Disorder
Emotional
Intellectual
Nervous
Nervous System
Viral
Condition
Brain Damage
Brought
Case
Central
Organic
Processes
Symptom
Tissue
Wiped
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I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our sense of who we are and yet elusive, ever-changing, fragmentary. One way to look at this is to say that, therefore, we ourselves are elusive, ever-changing and fragmentary to ourselves.
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Elusive
Paradox
Ever-Changing
Fragmentary
Fundamental
Primary
Themes
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I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I've lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains.
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Patterns
Remains
Writing Process
Discover
Embraces
Establishing
Leaping
Lets
Spaces
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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Bicycle
Including
Instant
Pants
Pens
Pockets
Basket
Coat
Explains
Line
Notebooks
One Or Two
Vanishes
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A new laboratory technique, positron emission tomography, uses radioactively labeled oxygen or glucose that essentially lights up specific and different areas of the brain being activated when a person speaks words or sees words or hears words, revealing the organic location for areas of behavioral malfunction.
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Laboratory
Location
Malfunction
Oxygen
Revealing
Technique
Behavioral
Different Areas
Emission
Essentially
Hears
Labeled
Lights
Organic
Sees
Speaks
Uses
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Though my poems are about evenly split between traditionally formal work that uses rhyme and meter and classical structure, and work that is freer, I feel that the music of language remains at the core of it all. Sound, rhythm, repetition, compression - these elements of my poetry are also elements of my prose.
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Compression
Core
Elements
Formal
Meter
Prose
Remains
Rhyme
Structure
Classical
Freer
Poems
Split
Uses
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