haberin başlığı ilgimi çekti önce: " beyni bilim için parçalandı" diyordu. okuyunca çarpıldığım sıra dışı öyküsü, 1953'te cerrahların nöbetlere çare olması için beyninin bazı bölümlerini almasıyla başlamış. sonrasını yabancı basında çıkan yazılardan birinden aktarayım:
"he knew his name. that much he could remember. he knew that his father’s family came from thibodaux, la., and his mother was from ireland, and he knew about the 1929 stock market crash and world war II and life in the 1940s. but he could remember almost nothing after that...
for the next 55 years, each time he met a friend, each time he ate a meal, each time he walked in the woods, it was as if for the first time....
and for those five decades, he was recognized as the most important patient in the history of brain science. as a participant in hundreds of studies, he helped scientists understand the biology of learning, memory and physical dexterity, as well as the fragile nature of human identity..."
bu hikaye "i can't remember to forget you" sözünü beynime kazıyan, hasta olduğum kurgusuyla ve hikayesiyle favori filmlerinden biri olan "memento"yu hatırlattı.