X-Message-Number: 17071
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:56:33 -0700
From: Olaf Henny <>
Subject: The Quirks of Memory
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This morning I woke up with a silly pre-adolescent ditty churning
around in my mind.  I have probably heard it only once in a
school play.  The six years I spent in Germany after I fled from
the East were spent in entirely adult company (the fellow
students were about as far from pre-adolescence as you can get in
your entire life).  So it is highly unlikely, that anything has
reminded me of that ditty at any time during the last half
century.  And yet, here it suddenly cropped up, probably
triggered by a dream, which I could not remember upon waking.

I often have to go to my notes to look up the exact time of
tomorrow s appointment, which I only made yesterday.  How did
that silly thing get into my long term memory in the first place,
and what prevented the dendrites or whatever it is, that
preserves memory, from re-arranging themselves to attend to new
tasks?

Best,
Olaf

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