Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent.
Oliver SacksWe now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust's jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection.
Oliver SacksDangerously wellโโ what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling โtoo well
Oliver Sacks