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...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...
...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...
...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 question the value of memory per se, but only after too much excessive and extraneous complication...
...when Livesey announces, in a note at the book's end, that she has drawn inspiration from great memory scholars such as Frances Yates, Jonathan Spence, A. R. Luria and Harvard's psychology department chair, Daniel L. Schacter, one wonders how she could have sapped those wonderful writers of their vitality. In comparison to Livesey, Luria's account of the Russian mnemonist Sherevskii is refreshingly direct and insightful, and there is more to learn about memory from a chapter of Spence's Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci than from the whole of this failed comedy. What this ultimately shows...
Massachusetts Youth for McCain coordinators Thomas R. Snider and Jonathan S Freimann and Campus Coordinators for George W. Bush Michael G. Adams and Christian J. Ward represented the campaigns of the two frontrunners in the Republican race...