Katje's peer

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I have my own weird example of this phenomenon - probably the only person on the planet suffering from this particular delusion:

A couple of years ago, my husband and I were haggling over which movie to stream, and I remembered that I'd always wanted to see the version of Crime and Punishment starring Michael Redgrave as Raskolnikov. Only problem was, it turned out not to exist. My reason for believing it existed was that I had a clear memory from childhood: one of those great movie shows they had on 60s TV - it may have been Movie 4, or some local NYC show - had opening credits with a montage of images from various movies, but in silhouette, with a sort of animation finish. One of these images was of a man wielding an axe. My lifelong understanding (or memory) was that this was an image from the Michael Redgrave version of Crime and Punishment. For all I know, my memory of those opening credits is fake (though I swear, I can hear the music that went along with them). Why would that image (thinking about it, maybe it was a double-headed axe, which would rule out Raskolonikov) be interpreted by my brain so specifically (and was I even aware of Redgrave or Dostoyevsky at the time I first saw it - if I even did)? Intertwined memories of different events getting remixed in my brain, probably. Damn, Redgrave would have made a great Raskolnikov!

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: John Bailey 
>Sent: Jan 3, 2017 6:06 PM
>To: Keith Davis 
>Cc: David Morris , Bruno Nogueira 
, Bob Berg , Unknown 
>Subject: Re: Katje's peer
>
>There's a fun parascience phenomenon called The Mandela Effect in
>which sizeable groups of people remember some historical fact firmly
>and conclusively one way even though they're wrong - ie a lot of
>people distinctly recall the Nelson Mandela died during the 80s, even
>though that's manifestly untrue. A lot remember the kids book The
>Berenstein Bears being spelled The Berenstain Bears. Heaps of other
>examples. (My favourite is the comedian Sinbad playing a genie in the
>movie Shazam, which never happened although I kind of remember it).
>Anyway, as pointless as the concept is, I'm sure there are plenty of
>examples of people misremembering Pynchon, perhaps more than almost
>any other writer. I have crystal images of scenes from his works that
>upon re-reading never existed. Just recently we talked here about the
>M&D scene in which Mason heatedly confronts the slave-driver, which
>doesn't actually happen in the book, yeah?
>
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