neo-neocon Amnesia: a love story: "it concerned a man in England who'd lost his memory in a very profound way. Then the other day, just by chance, I came across another documentary on the same subject, and finally learned his story.

Clive Wearing was a British musician, conductor, and musicologist who came down with encephalitis about twenty years ago, a sudden attack that left him with only his short-term memory."

Great long post by NNC on the problems of living with only short-term memory. [We recently saw a film on this, where the man tatooed notes onto himself.]

But the Power of Love is amazing in this story.