What does memories look like to the person with dementia?

Could the bookshelf analogy also work like this?

The floor is flooded with water(memory decay), and there is an earthquake of increasing magnitude(dementia).

There is a bookshelf(the brain) with 80-150 books(memories). It is in an area that has no flooded water.

When the bookshelf loses books, it can replenish it by a replenisher, but not too fast(new memories).

The newest books and replenisher are at the top, and the bottom books are the oldest.

The earthquake happens and causes water to flood the floor.

The earthquake partially breaks the replenisher, causing there to be no new memories coming as fast(antegrade amnesia).

The earthquake causes the books to fall into the water, causing the first book to get wet, ripped, desaturated, and ruined.

The earthquake increases in intensity, as more books fall into the water, losing more books than can be replenished.

Eventually, the earthquake gets too strong, that it knocks the whole bookshelf into the water, ruining any chances for new memories, causing the bookshelf to get wet, and eventually rot.

Is that a good addition to the analogy?

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