I could see from his work that his memory was a force of nature, and one day I dared to ask him about it. He told me he has what he calls "buffers," or little drawers in his brain that he opens to retrieve conversations and correspondence from as long as 50 years ago. He told me he thought for a long time that everyone had this ability.
http://chronicle.com/article/What-Its-Like-to-Be-Noam/234667 I got some exposure to this about a decade ago when I was walking along 120th Street near B'way during lunch when a cab pulled up and Chomsky stepped out on his way to some speaking engagement at Columbia. Since his daughter was a Tecnica volunteer, I thought I'd introduce myself. Five seconds after my introduction, he began commenting about what his daughter and other volunteers had done in Nicaragua more than a decade earlier. My jaw dropped. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
