Unless my memory fails me
Most of us think we know exactly where we were and what we were doing when the Twin Towers fell, when Lady Di died, when John Kennedy was murdered. But these sorts of memories are rarely right: they’re formed later in life, and then twisted.
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Original title
Als mijn geheugen me niet bedriegt
Author
Douwe Draaisma
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Why, to a question about our past, do we give a different answer today to the one we gave thirty years ago? Memory, recollection, paths that twist and turn in the labyrinth of time: it is wise and good to have such a brilliant guide into the labyrinth as Douwe Draaisma, who is able to separate sense and nonsense in a book which everyone will come to sooner or later and which thereby, through his examples, be gripping and at times moving to read.
Cees Nooteboom
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Douwe Draaisma
Douwe Draaisma (b. 1953) is a Dutch psychologist, university professor and the author of many books on human memory.