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The Death of a Mnemonist
Solomon Shereshevsky died on 1 May 1958. He dreamt of being a hero but achieved greatness of another kind.
Born in the 1880s in the small Russian town of Rezhitsa, now Rēzekne in Latvia, he was a sometime music student, efficiency expert and broker. Shereshevsky remembered his first months: his wickerwork crib, brown walls, white sheets, his mother’s embrace, warmth and then cold. His awareness, Luria wrote, was dominated by ‘images of his childhood: of the little house he had lived in in Rezhitsa; of the yard [with] horses standing in the shed, where everything smelled of oats and manure’.
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