I picked the excerpt from Michael Newton’s review of Daniel Heller-Roazen’s book, “Echolias: On the Forgetting of Language,” that appears in Lethem’s The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism. The book review summarizes Heller-Roazen’s main ideas present in his book. He explains how we learn and forget language. A baby is able to produce an immense variety of sounds and articulations that exist in many languages. However, when they start to learn their mother tongue, they forget the articulations he knew before. Later on, he says that language is a process of learning and unlearning and that even though countries have a different language, having one is the only thing element that we all have in common. However, the community does not own its dialect, they all share it and not even society itself can possess it. Newton describes Heller-Roazen’s idea with such amazement and curiosity that it makes the reader want to purchase the book. Throughout the review, he offers excerpts of some of the anecdotes present in the reading that he finds most curious. Hellen- Roazen focused on how a person that learns an initial language, but then move to another place and learns a new one, never truly forgets his original tongue. Sounds and words from other languages may seem familiar; there is no clear line between knowing and unknowing a dialect. Hellen-Roazen includes stories, studies, and personal experiences in his book. He also tries to explain his ideas with paradoxes such as “Forcing himself to never forget his mother tongue, he obliged himself always to remember to remember it” and “Once you’ve learned your lines, then you can forget them”. By what Newton describes, Hellen-Roazen’s, Echolias: On the Forgetting of Language,” sounds like a very interesting and informative read.