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(1) This was a success as most H.V.s keep lists of groups to tell their new mums about.

(2) V.S. RAMACHANDRAN: Offhand, I can't tell you when they started using the term "anosognosia" for other types of denial.

(3) V.S. RAMACHANDRAN: Well, you can have anosognosia for Wernicke's aphasia [a neurological disorder that prevents comprehension or production of speech] or you can have it for amnesia.

(4) V.S. Ramachandran has written about anosognosia in a number of journal articles and in his extraordinary book with Sandra Blakeslee, "Phantoms in the Brain."

(5) After the two sides exchanged gunfire, Indian patrols captured 61 armed pirates who, according to navy spokesman P.V.S. Satish, were suspected to be Somalis.

(6) See V.S. Ramachandran, The evolutionary biology of self-deception, laughter, dreaming and depression: some clues from anosognosia, Medical Hypotheses, November 1996, 47(5):347-62.

(7) They are, in novelist V.S. Naipaul's expression, "half-made societies, " trapped between a no-longer-usable past and a not-yet-accessible future.

(8) V.S. RAMACHANDRAN: It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

(9) The epigraph, quotes from Michel Foucault and V.S. Naipaul about memory and consciousness, suggests how the novel should be read.

(10) V.S. RAMACHANDRAN: Absolutely, and overall, fortunately, it's a positive cloud in most of us.

(11) V.S. RAMACHANDRAN: And it gets even better, she's just now told me that it's not her left arm, it is her mother's arm, so why is she pulling up her mother's arm and pointing it at my nose? Sentencedict.com

(12) "The objection before should not be there in this case," said V.S. Chauhan, director of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology.

(13) Still curious about the nature of self-deception, denial and neglect, I called V.S. Ramachandran, a legendary neuroscientist at the University of California – San Diego and an expert on anosognosia.