Glossary vintage - wine of high quality produced in a particular year antipathy - strong dislike fortunes - huge sums of money reluctant - unwilling delinquent - a young person who is regularly involved in wrongdoing exploits - daring or heroic acts or actions, feats abstracted - lacking concentration on what is happening around prosaic - dull mediocre - not very good, ordinary fallible - capable of making mistakes sieve - strainer or filter audacious - bold and daring eccentric - tending to act strangely indignant - being very angry quivering - trembling, shivering vexation - irritation, annoyance . Based on your understanding of the essay, answer the following questions in one or two sentences each. a) What does Lynd actually wonder at? b) Name a few things that a person remembers easily.
c) How do psychologists interpret forgetfulness? d) What is the commonest type of forgetfulness, according to Lynd? e) What does the author mean when he says the letter in his pocket leads an unadventurous life? f) What are the articles the writer forgets most often?
g) Who are the citizens of ‘dreamland’? Why? h) What is common about the ‘angler’ and the ‘poet’? About the Author Robert Wilson Lynd ( – ), an Irish writer, is one of the greatest essayists of the 20th Century.
He began his career as a journalist. He penned numerous articles for the leading newspapers and magazines like Daily News, The New Statesman and Nation. He wrote under the pseudonym ‘Y.Y.’ His essays cover a wide range of simple and interesting topics. They are humorous, delightful, ironical and satirical.
Robert Lynd was awarded with an honorary literary Doctorate by Queen’s University, Belfast in . He was also honoured by the Royal Society of Literature with a silver medal and by The Sunday Times with a gold medal for Belles Lettres. In his essay ‘Forgetting’, Robert Lynd takes a humorous look at the nature and effects of forgetfulness. - - :