Clive Wearing
In March of 1985, Clive Wearing, an eminent English musician and
musicologist in his mid-forties, was struck by a brain infection—a
herpes encephalitis—affecting especially the parts of his brain
concerned with memory. He was left with a memory span of only
seconds—the most devastating case of amnesia ever recorded. In the New Yorker of this week the extraordinary story about his life. With every blink of his eye, he forgets what he did, where is is etc. Sometimes he is weeks waking up. The only thing he remembers is his wife Deborah. He has been the subject of a couple of documentaries.
