Origins -- The fall -- Crumpled lead and rippled copper -- Dream jobs -- The bridge -- Arline -- Madness -- Pomander walk -- Water, fire, electricity -- Melius anceps remedium quam nullum -- the broken -- Room 2200 -- Sunset Hill -- Experiment successful, but the patient died -- Unlimited access -- Ecphory -- The vacuum and the ice pick -- The hunt -- It was brought into the sea -- Proust on the operating table -- Fortunate misfortunes -- Henry Gustave Molaison (1926-1953) -- Discovery -- Where angels fear to tread -- Monkeys and men -- Interpreting the stars -- The son-of-a-bitch center -- The MIT research project known as the amnesic patient H.M. -- Secret wars -- Dewey defeats Truman -- A sweet, intractable man -- It is necessary to go to Niagara to see Niagara Falls -- Patient H.M. (1953-2008) -- The smell of bone dust -- Every day is alone in itself -- Postmortem.