"The country that won the war has disappeared, self-destructed," Viktor Astafyev, a late Russian writer and war veteran once wrote in a letter.
Their mother suffered from mental illness and often disappeared, self-medicating on drugs and alcohol.
Make the proclamations that define his rapidly disappearing self; he wouldn't know himself without his list of demands — demands that very few in his intimate circle have any interest in meeting just now.
The Sibelius was puzzling: though the orchestra's very first notes -- the silvery, pianissimo string shimmer that opens the Violin Concerto -- offered great promise, the ensemble seemed almost to disappear self-effacingly behind the soloist, Janine Jansen.
However, when a self-affirmation paradigm is applied (eg, participants have to write a paragraph on a value that is personally important to them), the stereotype threat disappears; self-affirming women who autoaffirmed performed at the same level as women in the control condition.
Pete Seeger Has Lyme Disease First it was a missing banjo, which was returned last week, a couple of weeks after it disappeared (a self-employed painter had noticed the folk singer PETE SEEGER'S name on the case when he found the instrument, but said "it was just another name to me").
Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it.
With the person who lives – and who dies – with dementia, the language that connects us to others is disappearing, the self is being broken up.
"The complex shuffling and sorting out of images that we call 'recognizing' a person arises from the reality of disappearing selves, of death," Mr. Shattuck writes.
"My horizons flew away, my notion of time expanded and deepened, and my self disappeared.
I had spent my entire life without a child, but I was newly born that night, too, and my old self disappeared.
