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A review by Israel Rosenfield and Edward Ziff in The New York Review of Books for August 17, 2017 of Luke Dittrich’s book, Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets [Random House] is ostensibly about a flawed neurological surgery performed on Patient H.M. (aka Henry Gustav Molaison) by Dittrich’s grandfather is interesting, but an aside in the review even more so, as I see it.
On page 66 the reviewers, writing about mnemonic technique provide this:
“Cicero tells us that an aristocrat named Scopa was giving a banquet, at which the poet Simonides [who chanted a poem to honor his host was a guest] … a note was brought to Simonides that two young men were waiting for him outside. But when he went to greet them he did not find them. Meanwhile the banquet hall collapsed during his absence, killing all of the guests. The corpses were badly mangled and could not be identified. Simonides remembered the place where each of the guests was sitting and was therefore able to identify them.” [Italics mine]
Two things stand out: the memory acumen of Simonides, of course, but more importantly, that the poet was mysteriously summoned to a meeting by “two young men”
who were not to be found but Simonides brief venture averted a disaster for the poet, him.
This sort of reminded me of the episode in The Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament [Genesis 18, 1-15] where three men (thought to be angels, one of them even God, Himself) confided secrets to Abraham, one being that his elderly wife would have a son (which made Abraham’s wife, Sara, laugh, openly) and another that Sodom and Gomorra, because of their wickedness, would be destroyed.
Now I assure you that ancient astronaut advocates would think the Simonides episode and the angelic visitation to Abraham were instigated by extraterrestrials.
That is a possibility perhaps but I choose to see both accounts, Cicero’s and that in Genesis, as insertions by that which we cannot know or describe: the ineffable deity or force we call God.
Or is it merely a matter of men, two humans (Simonides and Abraham), having pierced the domain of time, receiving intuitions, one disguised (Simonides’) and one overt (Abraham’s)?
At any rate, both tales strike me as fundamental to what occurs in the human mind, either by whim of an outside element or by virtue of a neurological twinge, evoked by who knows what.
No Ancient Aliens, maybe angels, or better, human cognizance of a very special kind.
RR
http://ufocon.blogspot.com – The UFO Iconoclast(s)
Source:
http://ufocon.blogspot.com/2017/07/odd-interventions.html
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