Every few seconds a wine like the '61 seems to throw off a new sense memory: balsam, leather-bound books, black tea, chocolate-covered raisins, dried cherries.

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The appealing idea that your you-ness is bound up with your memory runs up against the difficulty that memory is not reliable.

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