2004-08-17

what is this LARP?

ADandD geeks will be pleased to learn what really goes on during Cabinet meetings.

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"Jamais vu is the contrary of déjà vu. In jamais vu, an experience feels like it's the first time, even though the experience is a familiar one. Jamais vu occurs in certain types of amnesia and epilepsy."

jamais vu n. The illusion or impression of never having experienced something that has actually been experienced many times before (cf. déjà vu).

There's a condition in epilepsy called jamais vu which means, literally, "never seen." It's the opposite of déjà vu; what happens here is that, when the sufferer comes round after a seizure, the whole world is new. He or she has, or so it seems, never seen any of it before.

— Lucretia Stewart, "The Reunion," The Independent, October 30, 1999

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