“The horror, typically, is only felt by others--the patient, unaware, amnesiac for his amnesia, may continue what he is doing, quite unconcerned, and only discover later that he lost not only a day (as is common with ordinary alcoholic 'blackouts'), but half a lifetime, and never knew it.”
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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