I am for all the world like a man who has permitted an injured limb to lie motionless under the impression that it is exquisitely sensitive, and on trying to move it finds that it is paralyzed." "Do you mean your memory is gone ?" "Not at all.

I remember everything connected with my former life, but with a total lack of keen sensation.

I remember it for clearness as if it had been but a day since then, but my feelings about what I remember are as faint as if to my consciousness, as well as in fact, a hundred years had intervened.

Perhaps it is possible to explain this, too.

The effect of change in surroundings is like that of lapse of time in making the past seem remote.