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“Perhaps … one of the last great mysteries is the one we carry inside our heads. How we remember, why we remember, what we remember.”
—Spoken by Simon McBurney in the play, Mnemonic.
Homunculus. Let this word tumble over your tongue. Funny little man livesin sulci of cerebrum. This I learned in school.What they never taught me:That the mind is a tricky place.One never knows who lives in the cracks between self and other—bullies and babies, andlittle old ladieshovering over porcelain teacups.