Agnosia

Have you ever had the experience of not recognizing someone you knew long ago? And or of finding a once familiar face lost in flesh? You may have caught your own face reflected in a store window for a second, pausing at the sight of a stranger. You self-conception is at war with time. Capgras is a condition where the familiar facial receptacle is occupied by a stranger prosopagnosia is a complete loss of recognition. Chuck Close a portraitist, ironically, suffered from it. Don’t Google the face of that lost love who creates longing in your dreams. It’s gone forever.

read the review of The Wormhole Society by Francis Levy and Joseph Silver in The East Hampton Star