Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig, in Eros on Crutches: On the Nature of the Psychopath,, describes absent-hearted people as "invalids of eros," yet cautions that we all bear traces of this deficiency in varying degrees. One good reason for studying them, he suggests, is to be better able to spot the absent places in ourselves.
— Gail Godwin, Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig, Heart by Gail Godwin