![]() It’s the darkest part of the brain…A place to house fearful memories” (134). She asks the professor teaching her what it means. ![]() ![]() Although amygdala comes from the Greek word for almond, to Anil it “sounds Sri Lankan,” like the name of “some bad god” (135). This word is amygdala, the anatomical term for a small knot of fibers made up of nerve cells that is located near the stem of the brain, one of which she has just cut away from surrounding tissue as part of an anatomy class (134). ![]() Studying in Guy’s Hospital in London where she is training to be a forensic scientist, Anil Tissera, the protagonist of Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost, discovers a new word that sounds strangely familiar though she has never heard it before. ![]()
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