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Reason and memory are nearly always at odds.

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It is also true that memory sometimes comes to him as a voice. It is a voice that speaks inside him, and it is not necessarily his own. It speaks to h...more

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And if Amsterdam was hell, and if hell was a memory, then he realized that perhaps there was some purpose to his being lost. Cut off from everything t...more

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Memory, therefore, not simply as the resurrection of one’s private past, but an immersion in the past of others, which is to say: history - which one ...more

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The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other t...more