Word: amnesia
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...said the work's four poems--"Anticipation," "Temporary amnesia, very common," "July Swim" and "How the Constellation Is Born"--"all deal in some way with framing, separating what is inside and outside...
...nicely played too--particularly by Willis, who neatly nails both his character's funny nastiness and his unsentimental reform once he begins to recover from his emotional amnesia. One doesn't want to oversell The Kid. It's a modest little fantasy. But it's also well made, unpretentious and refreshing--like a cool and fizzy bottle of soda pop on a hot summer...
Memory is a topic of inherent interest and easy terror-we guard our memories closely, and the prospect of losing them is horrific. What we recall of our own past is connected to how we identify ourselves in the present. Amnesia takes ourselves away from ourselves. We reserve a special pity for characters who lose memory, like Funes the Memorious in Borges' short story, or Rosanna Arquette in Desperately Seeking Susan...
...driving tension behind The Missing World-a tension that gets tiresome quickly-is Jonathan's torment at having to reveal the truth about his relationship with Hazel. He wants her back, and will take advantage of her amnesia to win her back. He agonizes over his decisions, but always manages to rationalize keeping her in the dark...