Word: yambo
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However, after a short time in the city, despite his fondness for these relatively innocuous diversions, Yambo accepts his wife’s suggestion that he return to his childhood home in Solara to try to recapture his lost youth...
Here the book more or less abandons its plot—and Eco sends Yambo off to delve into the hoards of books, magazines, and other artifacts that, aided and abetted by the Italian cuisine that rockets his blood pressure to dire levels, are supposedly to help him re-find himself...
...turns out that Yambo has lost only what is called his episodic memory—the form of memory that “establishes a link between who we are today and who we have been”—while his semantic memory of impersonal events and information remains intact...
...You’ll have to forgive me,” Yambo says. “I can’t seem to say anything that comes from the heart. I don’t have feelings, I only have memorable sayings...
...Yambo,” he tells himself, “your memory is made of paper. Not of neurons, but of pages...