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Narrator's Case Of Amnesia
As we can see in the quotation above, the narrator forgot that he was there before. According to the second diagnostic criteria which isrecurrent gaps in the recall of everyday events, important personal information, and/or traumatic events that are inconsistent with ordinary forgetting, the quotation above is included into this second criteria. The narrator’s case of amnesia is inconsistent with the ordinary forgetting, he forgot the fact that he went there before, because he went there not as himself, but as Tyler

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