Lost in the Reflecting Pool: A Memoir

by Diane Pomerantz

“In some ways I think every wrong turn I was to make . . . could be traced to moments of inaction, moments when I noticed things unfolding wrongly and failed to query or object.” —

I refused to see the subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which he assigned to me the responsibility for everything that went wrong.

Beware, for if you drink from the River Lethe and you forget, you will not know what it is you need to remember.