Word: amnesiac
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...MEMOIRS OF AN AMNESIAC by Oscar Levant. 320 pages. Putnam...
...Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1940, ten years before his death. It tells how a downed pilot who looks like Tarzan has amnesia and naturally concludes that he's the African swinger himself. Throughout the jungle of circumstance, the real Tarzan is pleased to stand up for his amnesiac imitation when the going gets tough. After all, he has his image to think of. He's set for a 1964 TV series...
...advised to relax. He tries to relax with a deadly poisonous music-hall beauty named Netta (Linda Darnell). When she contemptuously uses his infatuation as a means to her own evil ends, he proves the doctor was right, using Netta's neck as a proving-ground. Still amnesiac, he plants her corpse on the crest of a Guy Fawkes bonfire, goes home and gets on with his concerto. Thanks to the prodding of Dr. Sanders, he begins to get his memory back while giving this work its world premiere before a socialite audience...