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1. 'Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases'; 2. Flashes inthe dark: first memories; 3. Smell and memory; 4. Yesterday's record; 5. Theinner flashbulb; 6. 'Why do we remember forwards and not backwards?' 7. Theabsolute memories of Funes and Sherashevsky; 8. The advantages of a defect:the savant syndrome; 9. The memory of a grandmaster: a conversation with TonSijbrands; 10. Trauma and memory: the Demjanjuk case; 11. Richard and AnnaWagner: forty-five years of married life; 12. 'In oval mirrors we drivearound': on experiencing a sense of dej... vu; 13. Reminiscences; 14. Whylife speeds up as you get older; 15. Forgetting; 16. 'I saw my life flashbefore me'; 17. From memory - Portrait with Still Life.