Tuesday, September 17, 2013

"The mind can be blank and it still be going"

"This Op-Doc is part of a suite of short films collectively titled “Translating Edwin Honig: A Poet’s Alzheimer’s,” completed in 2010."



"It is the chronicle of a man who, though he may have lost his memory, his relationship to the past and his command of language, still retained his wit, his sense of humor, his scholarly demeanor and the bearings of a deeply poetic soul."

The New York Times

2 comments:

ndspinelli said...

What a great clip. Even though his mind has atrophied, you can still see who he is. And, he's the kind of guy I would like to meet in a bar and talk about shit.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

"and it still be..?"

Alzheimer's is essentially a regression to the past. To the extent that you've not dwindled beyond the point of just being a little kid again, you'll evince a little kid's personality/temperament. It's getting past that stage where things get unavoidably bad.