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Courtney Miller
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Ludwig's Fugue: A White Feather Mystery
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Author Insight
What Caused Ludwig's Fugue?
David Ludwig's "fugue" is not a musical composition. In this case it is the term from psychology referring to "a period during which a person suffers from loss of memory." The idea for the book came to me after watching the two movies "50 First Dates" and "Memento". I wondered whether there was any validity in the premise--that someone could lose all of their memories after sleeping. I found no evidence of that, but did find a case in the Smithsonian magazine about the case Henry Molaison who lost his ability to create new memories after brain surgery in which his hippocampus was removed. After the surgery, he could not remember anything for more than a few seconds. In the book, Ludwig's Fugue, I reference this article on page 122.
Book Excerpt
Ludwig's Fugue: A White Feather Mystery
David Ludwig lay crumpled on the field. His head was pounding and his vision fuzzy. He raised his tingling fingers to touch something cool on the side of his face. It was wet. He pulled back his hand and saw crimson blood dripping from his fingers.
Pulling his shredded jersey up to wipe the blood from his face and hair, he looked around and realized that nothing looked familiar! He could not remember the crushing hit he had put on the half back a few moments ago, a hit so violent, it cracked his helmet. Nor did he know that a crippling injury to his cranium had just been sustained—an injury that damaged the connections around the hippocampus, that portion of his brain responsible for managing memories. He did not know where he was. He did not know who he was.
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