![]() ![]() It read, “Helpless, demented, confused and disoriented.” At first suspicious of 1945 as a cut-off point-as a year that seemed too symbolically sharp-Sacks went on to diagnose the mariner as a victim of Korsakov's syndrome, resulting in near total short-term memory loss, in this case compounded by extreme retrograde amnesia. There were great times ahead.īounced from Bellevue to a nursing home in Greenwich Village to The Home for the Aged, where Sacks worked, Jimmie came complete with a cryptic transfer note. Girls could be expected to spontaneously kiss servicemen on the street. ![]() New aerodynamic cars were getting ready to roll. Truman was at the helm of the freshly painted ship of state. For Jimmie, the Second World War had just ended in a triumphant Allied victory. In chapter two of “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” Oliver Sacks tells the story of “The Lost Mariner,” an alcoholic ex-sailor named Jimmie G., who was 49 years old in 1975, the time of their first meeting. ![]()
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