![]() ![]() He was acutely, continually, agonizingly conscious that something bizarre, something awful, was the matter. When he was filmed in 1986 for Jonathan Miller’s extraordinary documentary “Prisoner of Consciousness,” Clive showed a desperate aloneness, fear, and bewilderment. In addition to this inability to preserve new memories, Clive had a retrograde amnesia, a deletion of virtually his entire past. But this was real life, a room changing in ways that were physically impossible. ![]() Something akin to a film with bad continuity, the glass half empty, then full, the cigarette suddenly longer, the actor’s hair now tousled, now smooth. I tried to imagine how it was for him. . . . Each blink, each glance away and back, brought him an entirely new view. The view before the blink was utterly forgotten. ![]() Indeed, if he did blink, his eyelids parted to reveal a new scene. But he did not seem to be able to retain any impression of anything for more than a blink. His ability to perceive what he saw and heard was unimpaired. ![]()
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