“Memory”— Two Notes from Samuel Butler’s Note-Books
Memory i Memory is a kind of way (or weight – whichever it should be) that the mind has got upon it, in virtue of which the sensation excited endures a little longer than the cause which excited it....
View ArticleDFW’s Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, books as memory objects, etc.
On our short walk home from her school yesterday, my darling daughter inquires if we can go to the bookstore. She needs some new Junie B. Jones, she reports. I assent. This particular bookstore is...
View ArticleAlmost no memory | A review of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant
In Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2015 novel The Buried Giant, a metaphysical mist engulfs sixth-century Britain, clouding the memories of all who inhabit the land. Saxons and Britons alike cannot recall their...
View ArticleTo write often means remembering what never existed (Clarice Lispector)
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View ArticleMemory of Past Fragrments — Leonor Fini
Mémoire Des Fragments Passés (Memory of Past Fragments), 1984 by Leonor Fini (1908-1996) Tagged: Art, Ghosts, Leonor Fini, memory
View ArticleAlmost no memory | A review of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant
In Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2015 novel The Buried Giant, a metaphysical mist engulfs sixth-century Britain, clouding the memories of all who inhabit the land. Saxons and Britons alike cannot recall their...
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