Question

prose lesson 1-on forgetting
essay questions 1. Why
does Robeat
modern man has
Lynd say that the
efficient memory ?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Summary of Forgetting

The essay begins with the writer’s surprise at the publication of a list of articles lost by travellers at a railway station in London. Lynd says that absentmindedness has puzzled the readers of the list. Lynd doubts that such type of absentmindedness and wonders at the efficiency of human memory. Ordinarily, a person remembers everything that is expected of him.

However, there is a twist to the argument like in the matter of taking medicines. Lynd imagines that only an extraordinarily systematic mortal can always remember to take his pills. Medicine is the easiest thing to remember because it is taken before, during or after meals and the meal itself should remind us about it. But people still forget to take medicines even if they are truly interested in taking them. In his view, chemists make a lot of fortunes out of the forgotten medicine. Same is the case with posting letters. This, he thinks, might be due to lack of interest in other people’s letters but again he contradicts his own opinion by saying that he forgets to post some of his own letters. As for the things that are forgotten in the trains and taxis, Lynd says walking sticks he himself often forgets. He does not carry an umbrella for fear of losing it.

As for the items lost in trains, it is the young rather than the adults who forgot to take their belongings. Lynd says that as players returning from the playfields still think of the game they are either happy or sad depending on have they won or lost. Such imagination keeps them away from the real world and they forget their belongings.