7. What does The Brief History of the Dead reveal about the subtle ways a single, ordinary human life is interconnected with thousands of others? Does Puckett’s claim that he can remember between fifty and seventy thousand people seem exaggerated or plausible?
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The Brief History of the Dead--Question 7
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I would like to think that number is a little high but when you think about it, if you moved a lot in school, college, jobs, new towns, it could be possible if your were out going. I tried to count up a few of the people I knew and I was surprised, and there went the memories again.
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I think it is a plausible number--I don't think you know that many people well, but the memory of them can stick. We have a man with a shopping cart here in town always wandering the allies. I don't know his name but have the memory. Not to mention I teach between 110-120 students each year. Multiply that by 25 years--not to mention their family members that come in. The numbers start to add up. The only thing I might question is if he actually can recall a memory with each of these 50-70 thousand people.
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I think that it is entirely plausible, but most of us would probably not have the patience to try and remember. For those of us who have moved a lot, the number would be huge of people that we have interacted with. It's sort of like that game The Seven Degrees of Kevin Bacon. You remember one person, and that leads you to another person and on and on.
Posted 3 months ago by WillowandWindismom #
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