"Cap knew that country, knew every creek and every fork. There were no maps except what a man had in his skull, and nobody of whom to ask directions, so a body remembered what he saw. Cap knew a thousand miles of country like a man might know his kitchen, to home."
This quote is from the Louis Lamour novel, The Daybreakers. It illustrates the active, vigorous memories men had in those days because they had to have them. Their very lives depended upon their memories. Now we have machines to remember for us, and we are allowing our brains to atrophy. That cannot be a good thing.
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