9
Oh, yes, Katniss’ feelings are unequivocal when it comes to one other creature. She really hates Buttercup. She wishes often she’d drowned him instead of giving him to Prim. But eventually she embraces him as a remnant of all she has ever loved in Prim, the way, when someone close to you dies, even the scent lingering on a shirt, or dress, brings you momentarily close to that person’s spirit. Buttercup holds a bit of Prim inside of him and by the end of Katniss’ journey she also finds him one of her most trusted companions. His loyalty and fierceness, after all, matches her own.
13
Charles Cross,
Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain.
16
See “Altered animals: Creatures with bonus features” in
New Scientist
, July 2010
.
17
See “Scientist accused of playing God after creating artificial life by making designer microbe from scratch, but could it destroy humanity?” in
The Daily Mail
, July 2010.
18
Psychologist William James came up with this description in 1890. It’s hard to do any better.
19
We all have memory “triggers,” but most of our memories are not intrusive and painful. The smell of car wax might remind you of a summer afternoon with your big brother, or a bite of licorice could send you zooming back in time to the day you learned to tie your shoes.
20
See J. K. Hamlin, K. Wynn, & P. Bloom’s “Social evaluation by preverbal infants,” published in
Nature
, Nov 22, 2007.
21
See Maguen, et al.’s “The Impact of Direct and Indirect Killing on Mental Health Symptoms in Iraq War Veterans” published in
Journal of Traumatic Stress
, February 2010.
22
Always with the mice ... Seriously, the progress in memory research is astonishing. While I was writing this essay, several major breakthroughs were announced.
23
Supposedly, Spartacus was killed in the final battle of the war when he and his rebels attacked the Roman army, although his body was never found. The surviving rebels were crucified by Roman soldiers.
24
And who was a great inspiration to George Washington. Quote from William Calhoun, “Washington at Newburgh,”
The Claremont Institute.
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