How to draw shitty manga - the premise
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 by Nestor
Trying for something different I’ve added a j-list products blog to the site, something people can browse and look around without me having to go around posting links to bento boxes and the like inside the posts. J-list is not amazon but they have a fair amount of interesting stuff. And Peter Payne writes entries about living in japan so it’s more interesting than a simple list of stuff.
The tragic story of Clive Wearing, the man with 30 second memory. Every time he sees his wife it’s like he hasn’t seen her for years. And he’s been like that since the 70s.
here’s another clip from decades before, showing him in the same state
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
On the other hand, Prince Randian, the snake man from Todd Browning’s famous 1930 movie Freaks (Which starred actual circus freaks) didn’t let something so minor as not having arms or legs from enjoying life (He even had a wife and kids)
August 24th, 2007 at 4:54 am
Whoa. Moving faster now.
August 24th, 2007 at 8:04 am
You know, as much as it would suck to be married to someone who had a memory like that, it’s got to be kind of neat to be greeted like that every time you see your spouse.
August 24th, 2007 at 8:19 am
I imagine it got old after a short time. She even divorced him at one point.
August 25th, 2007 at 1:24 am
But luckily for him, he doesn’t remember that.
Made me think though. What if he constantly had a visual reminder of his condition (”Amnesia: You only remember the last 7-30 seconds”)? As far as I understood things, he felt as if he had been unconscious for a year or so, not as if he just couldn’t remember things. If he was always reminded of his amnesia, would he be able to change in some way? Perhaps if he wore glasses with a futuristic computer display it could keep him up to date on a small number of facts, and perhaps update those facts based on stimuli and/or signals, such as in which room his wife is, and why he has to wear those display glasses, and other such current things.
Or would that cause him to constantly spend his time thinking about his condition? I could see how that would cause a train of thoughts that would always have to go back and forth, since once he’d found an answer, he’d have to go back and ask the question again. And I suppose that if he always knew where his wife was, he’d always go to that place, since he hadn’t seen her in a year. Unless the display told him how much actual time had passed since he last saw her, in which case he might perhaps be able to restrain himself.
August 25th, 2007 at 2:11 am
He doesn’t believe what he writes on his own diary - he keeps writing “I just woke up” then angrily crossing it out in the second video. So he’d have no time for some weird glasses setup.
Something seems to have sunk in in the years he’s been like this, in the first video where he’s older he seems to be aware that it’s been going on for a long time - the complaint he makes about never having seen a single doctor for instance. Some people with this kind of amnesia can form memories slowly, and without being aware that they form them (Like they get better at playing tetris, even if they don’t remember having played tetris ever)
And all this from a goddamn cold sore infection O_o
August 29th, 2007 at 10:42 am
better at playing tetris?
maybe its muscle memory, meaning his twitch skillz get honed in with time and therefore seem improve.
like how a cop can cock teh hammer on his service revolver by instinct during a stop without thinking it after years of target practise.