On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 12:01 PM Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote:
> "I miss what I had in terms of the speed of memory access. If I needed > a word or a fact it was already at my fingertips and now it’s like an > arthritic and elderly gentleman has to sit up and go down many, many > flights of stairs very slowly and go and rummage in dusty drawers. > Eventually he will return four days later, normally at about 1.30 in > the morning, and I will sit up and go, “Oh yes! ‘Crepuscular.’ That > was the word I was looking for.”" > Doesn't Search solve this problem in many cases? Or is Gaiman bemoaning the loss of the time delayed "Ah ha!" moment? I find that I get older my memory is not as agile as it used to be. So sometimes I find myself not saying something because I cannot recall the exact term for it. I used to worry about the degradation in the retrieval speed. But these days, I look at these opportunities as good exercise in not replying with one's gut. Thaths
