To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize “how it really was.” It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger.
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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cit...
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Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead...
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What has been forgotten.... is never something purely individual.
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The important thing for the remembering author is not what he experienced, but the weaving of his memory, the Penelope work of recollection. Or should...
