The Memory Combination
I find a lot of truth in the crazy Marcel Proust's theories on memories that Daniel L. Schacter, the author of Building Memories: Encoding and Retrieving the Present and the Past had included in his essay. Proust was considered crazy because of his obsession with memory and his decision to restrict himself from society for 15 years in order to write about personal recollections and the nature of memory (Schacter 173). I value Proust's ideas because he took so much time to look deep into his own mind and memory, even if it was only one mans opinion versus a researched explanation. In this time, Proust discovers that memories can be both fragile and powerful to understanding oneself, especially when evoked by tastes and smells (174). From that experience, he implies remembering depends on combining information from the present and the past (175). I feel without the connection of information from the past and the present joined with the connection of the senses......

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Title: The Memory Combination: An Essay From Collabrative Works Of Daniel L. Shacter, Scott Russell Sanders, And Loren Eiseley
Approximate Word Count: 2059
Approximate Pages: 9 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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