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Festival choir member Virginia L. Hazel '03 says she does not feel excluded from the Sunday choir group, however. She says she has been able to get to know other members during coffee hour before services...
...freshman I was able to ask questions to older members," Hazel says. "It was comforting...
...doesn't consume your time," Hazel says. "You go, you practice, you get the job done, and you do a good...
...horror of Hazel's forgetfulness is intense, and her effects are usually right on the money. We feel sad for Hazel, and Jonathan's treachery is repulsive both in action and thought. That natural repulsion is, I'm afraid, exploited to an unpleasant degree. A character without memory is just too easy to put in danger. This is the literary equivalent of going after the family pet in a horror flick: the victim is a helpless pawn whom we have little chance to meet properly, and thus have little incentive to care about in any specific sense. Put simply...
...charitable description of Hazel's ignorance is ''dramatic irony''; a blunter critic would just call it a melodramatic contrivance. There is evidence of research into both the history and psychology of memory (she retells the story of Simonides, the Greek lyric poet who invented the art of memory), but in the end the book says little about memory, except that we can on occasion have a love-hate relation with our own sense of the past. At one point Jonathan wonders whether it might have been better if both he and Hazel had lost memory. Livesey has rightly called into...