It's very strange how memory works. The first few paragraphs I thought - "yes, I remember this". But once I got farther into it, I realized it was definitely S

It's very strange how memory works. The first few paragraphs I thought - "yes, I remember this". But once I got farther into it, I realized it was definitely Shaq's Kazaam that I was misremembering. However--I would never have thought it was Sinbad at all, if the article had not suggested it first. I'm not sure if that says more about the nature of memory, or the power of suggestion. Perhaps fading memory combined with strong and 'seemingly accurate' suggestion is quite a powerful thing. There are tons of examples of this. For example, was that old Tom Cruise movie called "Interview with A Vampire" or "Interview with THE Vampire"? Like 'Shazaam', many people say that at some point the movie title changed. But there's no evidence of that at all. Perhaps my all time favorite story about the strangeness of memory is more relevant than ever. Borges' story, "Shakespeare's Memory". Read aloud for the New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/fiction-podcast-hisham-matar-reads-jorge-luis-borges http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/fiction-podcast-h... Basically, a writer is magically given Shakespeare's memories. "But he soon discovers that memory is a slippery thing, 'not a summation, it is a chaos of vague possibilities.'" The greatest labyrinth of all might just be the mind.