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  • Or unless they had amnesia.†   (source)
  • All of this comes back to me as vividly as if these were my last impressions before an attack of amnesia.†   (source)
  • Or amnesia.†   (source)
  • "So, a crash course for the amnesiac," Leo said, in a helpful tone that made Jason think this was not going to be helpful.†   (source)
  • Like an amnesiac I roamed the streets and (instead of doing my homework, or attending my language lab, or joining any of the clubs to which I had been invited) rode the subway out to purgatorial end-of-the-line neighborhoods where I wandered alone among bodegas and hair-weave emporiums.†   (source)
  • We will check for amnesia.†   (source)
  • In any case, I mixed a slight amnesiac into her second injection.†   (source)
  • Because how many times in real life does anybody ever get amnesia?†   (source)
  • And okay, maybe I was willing to have a little selective amnesia.†   (source)
  • The rest of the formula was kept secret, but as best doctors and chemists could tell, the solution included substances that imparted a pleasant state of euphoria and sedation trimmed with amnesia—an effect the Chicago post office found problematic, for each year it wound up holding hundreds of letters sent from Dwight that lacked important elements of their destination addresses.†   (source)
  • Writers also have to practice a kind of amnesia when they sit down or (like Thomas Wolfe, who was very tall and wrote on top of the refrigerator—really) stand up to write.†   (source)
  • C. W. Shumway observed the Los Angeles revival of 1906 and noted six basic symptoms: complete loss of rational control; dominance of emotion that leads to hysteria; absence of thought or will; automatic functioning of the speech organs; amnesia; and occasional sporadic physical manifestations such as jerking or twitching.†   (source)
  • Did you all get amnesia?†   (source)
  • Was it a defense mechanism, amnesia, or simply part of the whole ugly situation?†   (source)
  • Almost as troubling as his apparent amnesia was the fact that Dan's face had been X-ed out so thoroughly in both pictures that the paper had been torn.†   (source)
  • He says he has had blackout spells, periods of amnesia, and headaches ever since that time, and a major portion of his antisocial behavior has occurred since that time.†   (source)
  • Amnesia was one way for the mind to protect itself from reliving something that would otherwise break you apart.†   (source)
  • Emotional amnesia, maybe.†   (source)
  • Only the guarantee of amnesia, the fact that the patient will remember nothing but the anesthetist's saying "Sweet dreams," allows us to be surgeons.†   (source)
  • Maybe the knock to his head had given him amnesia.†   (source)
  • Webb, Webb … amnesia?†   (source)
  • I'd be like you and Daddy and those other educated blacks sitting over there in Linden Hills with a terminal case of middle-class amnesia."†   (source)
  • Selective amnesia?†   (source)
  • He had to hope for amnesia.†   (source)
  • Amnesia?†   (source)
  • GUIL: Difficult to say, really-some kings tend to be amnesiac, others I suppose-the opposite, whatever that is….†   (source)
  • Mightn't he simply have run off, victim of amnesia, or become a fleeing culprit?†   (source)
  • I had head injuries-I'll show you the scars when we've got more light-and I am suffering from amnesia.†   (source)
  • Or maybe only a semi-invalid, laid up just now and then, with terrific recurrent headaches, or spells of amnesia, of feeblemindedness.†   (source)
  • She does not have amnesia.   (source)
  • From the big ones you get novels, not amnesia.†   (source)
  • He's got amnesia or something," Piper said.†   (source)
  • It must be different with lacunar amnesia.†   (source)
  • It may well be that Grace is a true amnesiac.†   (source)
  • Hey, she's not fighting amnesia," Leo said.†   (source)
  • "Look at this one: 'CURTAIN BEST MAN TO HANDLE BAFFLING AMNESIA EPIDEMIC."†   (source)
  • Remember when we talked about lacunar amnesia, or forgetting particular events?†   (source)
  • He might come out of his amnesia and decide he hated Piper.†   (source)
  • She claimed his amnesia had kept him alive, but that made no sense.†   (source)
  • Despite his amnesia and his feeling that he didn't belong there, he couldn't help being impressed.†   (source)
  • The other was a glass vial—the amnesia potion.†   (source)
  • He'd had enough trouble with amnesia for one lifetime.†   (source)
  • Beck Swanson suddenly got a case of amnesia about what happened.†   (source)
  • I forgot about the post-Hebrew School amnesia.†   (source)
  • Amnesiac demigods who had gotten on Reyna's bad side?†   (source)
  • After all, you came from Medusa and had a history of amnesia, even schizophrenia.†   (source)
  • He would remember; there'd be no amnesia where Herr Koenig was concerned.†   (source)
  • Months ago, before Percy got amnesia, they'd had dinner in Paris one night, compliments of Hermes.†   (source)
  • Lost his memory and nearly lost his life because his controls disbelieved the story of amnesia!†   (source)
  • Had he ever done any-thing like this before his amnesia?†   (source)
  • It's called amnesia; it has nothing to do with violence.†   (source)
  • "Clearly you have amnesia," Michal said.†   (source)
  • They might actually be the cause of your continued amnesia.†   (source)
  • He even knew that this kind of selective memory loss was consistent with amnesia.†   (source)
  • The auto accident had not given me my amnesia.†   (source)
  • He said you are well up on cerebral diseases and nervous afflictions, and that in matters concerning amnesia you are on your way to becoming a leading expert.†   (source)
  • So, amnesia.†   (source)
  • But in cases of amnesia" — he gives a faint smile — "they have frequently produced astounding, and, I may say, very rapid results."†   (source)
  • Also, he needed to establish the total amnesia which had been caused by the shock of being buried alive.†   (source)
  • They are nearing the blank mystery, the area of erasure; they are entering the forest of amnesia, where things have lost their names.†   (source)
  • The tale of Misery and her amnesia and her previously unsuspected (and spectacularly rotten) blood kin marched steadily along toward Africa, which was to be the setting of the novel's second half.†   (source)
  • Amnesia?†   (source)
  • The Institute will become the Amnesia Sanctuary — he needs a place to put all the people who resist him!†   (source)
  • Is it a real case of amnesia, of the somnambulistic type, or is he the victim of a cunning imposture?†   (source)
  • The onset of this symptom is most sudden, and once it has begun, it persists without interruption until amnesia sets in.†   (source)
  • Misery's amnesia?†   (source)
  • "Grace's amnesia seems genuine enough," says Simon, "or so I have come to believe, in the light of my previous clinical experience.†   (source)
  • It was an official advisory from something called the Public Health Administration: Just what is Sudden Amnesia Disease (SAD)?†   (source)
  • Lost memories lie down there like sunken treasure, to be retrieved piecemeal, if at all; and amnesia itself may be in effect a sort of dreaming in reverse; a drowning of recollection, a plunging under….†   (source)
  • When Milligan was captured, he'd thought Mr. Curtain discovered his amnesia, when in fact Mr. Curtain had caused it.†   (source)
  • "This was followed," he continues, "by an episode of fainting, and then by hysterics, mixed with what would appear to have been somnambulism; after which there was a deep and prolonged sleep, and subsequent amnesia."†   (source)
  • I keep forgetting about your amnesia.†   (source)
  • SAD cases are admitted for free care at the Amnesia Sanctuary on Nomansan Island, a state-of-the-art facility where patients live comfortably, under strict quarantine, while the cure for their disease is sought.†   (source)
  • As a result of this session and the astonishing revelations it produced, Dr. Jordan gave it as his opinion that Grace Marks' loss of memory was genuine, not feigned — that on the fatal day she was suffering from the effects of an hysterical seizure brought on by fright, which resulted in a form of auto-hypnotic somnambulism, not much studied twenty-five years ago but well documented since; and that this fact explains her subsequent amnesia.†   (source)
  • Forgetting about amnesia.†   (source)
  • He has had amnesia.†   (source)
  • Pioneer work was constantly going forward; here he would like to mention the courageous Dr. Charcot of Paris, who had recently dedicated himself to the study of hysterics; and the investigation of dreams as a key to diagnosis, and their relation to amnesia, to which he himself hoped in time to make a modest contribution.†   (source)
  • An amnesia epidemic?†   (source)
  • Amnesia?†   (source)
  • Some thought it was a clever marketing ploy for a movie—maybe McLean was going to play an amnesiac?†   (source)
  • Lacunar amnesia?†   (source)
  • Then it dawned on him: the way he had felt back then, for a few days, was probably how Annabeth had felt for the six months he had been missing with amnesia.†   (source)
  • Maybe he'll get amnesia and forget it.†   (source)
  • Damaged, there was amnesia.†   (source)
  • The violence was returning as it had returned to a bewildered amnesiac on a fishing boat beyond the shoals of a Mediterranean island.†   (source)
  • With me getting amnesia and getting sent to Camp Jupiter and all, I didn't think about Calypso much after that.†   (source)
  • Two of the men reported severe dissociative trance like states during which violent and bizarre behavior was seen, while the other two reported less severe, and perhaps less well-organized, amnesiac episodes.†   (source)
  • I imagine that old Polybotes … well, meeting him in a state of amnesia can't be good for a child of P—that is to say, Neptune.†   (source)
  • Call it amnesia.†   (source)
  • Conversely, someone looking for a man hospitalized for amnesia, whose background incorporated specific skills, languages, racial characteristics, the medical data banks could provide candidates.†   (source)
  • Later, when the truth was known, that the 'traitor' had no treason in him but instead a mental aberration called amnesia, Conklin fell apart.†   (source)
  • Are you telling me you've had amnesia?†   (source)
  • That man — that very brave man — who went underground for us, using the name "Jason Bourne" for three years, was injured, and the result of those injuries was amnesia.†   (source)
  • The word is amnesia.†   (source)
  • … On the basis of Mo's on-the-spot evaluation of that hypothetical profile-which he hours later suspected was no more hypothetical than Campbell's soup-an innocent amnesiac was nearly blown away in a government ambush on New York's Seventy-first Street.†   (source)
  • The crippled Conklin had wrongfully, stupidly made accusations against David, not listening to the pleas of an amnesiac, instead assuming treachery and 'turning' to the point where he had tried to kill David himself outside of Paris.†   (source)
  • Amnesia.†   (source)
  • Yet interrogation specialists talk in dark corners, as often to relieve frustration as to impress a listener, and he had heard about a recalcitrant, unmanageable patient, an amnesiac they called "Davey" and sometimes just a short, sharp, hostile "Webb," formerly a member of Saigon's infamous Medusa, and a man they suspected of feigning his loss of memory.†   (source)
  • No. The amnesia.†   (source)
  • "As I said, amnesia," Michal explained.†   (source)
  • Amnesia?†   (source)
  • This sort of statement must be completely normal, but because of his amnesia, it felt …. ambitious.†   (source)
  • Amnesia.†   (source)
  • My dear friend, I do believe you have a classic case of amnesia, though I can't understand why the water didn't heal that as well.†   (source)
  • He could not be told he was dealing with an amnesiac, for in that loss of memory might be found a man of dishonor.†   (source)
  • The amnesia had locked them out.†   (source)
  • You're dealing with an amnesiac, a man who's been trying for months to find out who he is and where he comes from.†   (source)
  • Goddamn you-I'm an amnesiac!†   (source)
  • He's a near total amnesiac.†   (source)
  • …of thing; intimations of suicide, forgoing of exercise, loss of mirth, hints of claustrophobia not to say delusions of imprisonment; invocations of camels, chameleons, capons, whales, weasels, hawks, handsaws-riddles, quibbles and evasions; amnesia, paranoia, myopia; day-dreaming, hallucinations; stabbing his elders, abusing his parents, insulting his lover, and appearing hatless in public-knock-kneed, droopstockinged and sighing like a love-sick schoolboy, which at his age is coming…†   (source)
  • Princess: I tell you I don't remember, it's all gone away Chance: I don't believe in amnesia.†   (source)
  • Like an amnesia case playing solitaire in a hospital.†   (source)
  • …not only had no visible father but had found himself to be, even in infancy, enclosed by an unsleeping cabal bent apparently on teaching him that he had never had, that his mother had emerged from a sojourn in limbo, from that state of blessed amnesia in which the weak senses can take refuge from the godless dark forces and powers which weak human flesh cannot stand, to wake pregnant, shrieking and screaming and thrashing, not against the ruthless agony of labor but in protest against…†   (source)
  • I said as much, and he answered: "Well, you see, I was interested, because amnesia was Conway's trouble at one time.†   (source)
  • I had horrible visions of you dead in an alleyway, or wandering around skid row with amnesia.†   (source)
  • Fugues of amnesia.†   (source)
  • Motor activity impaired; general reduction of glandular functioning; accelerated loss of coordination; and strong indications of progressive amnesia.†   (source)
  • What idiosyncracies of the narrator were concomitant products of amnesia?†   (source)
  • Firstly, in order to exercise mnemotechnic: secondly, because after an interval of amnesia, when, seated at the central table, about to consult the work in question, he remembered by mnemotechnic the name of the military engagement, Plevna.†   (source)
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