This is the postmodern desert inhabited by people who are, in effect, consuming themselves in the form of images and abstractions through which their desires, sense of identity, and memories are replicated and then sold back to them as products
Larry McCaffreyTag: identity capitalism memory consumerism postmodernism
We need falsifications to make the past inhabitable.
Frans KellendonkTo remember a man’s name is to give him eternal life
Bill GunnTag: memory
The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.
Vera NazarianTag: world stories dreams story thought dream storytelling memory creation actions memories acting thoughts story-telling speaking acts dreams-of-the-compass-rose enacting shaped shaping telling the-world
We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.
John WyndhamHomeopaths argue that water has a memory.
Scarlett ThomasTag: water memory homeopathy
When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable
Martin AmisMemory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.
Colum McCannTag: memory
And I'll dance with you in Vienna,
I'll be wearing a river's disguise.
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder
my mouth on the dew of your thighs.
And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,
with the photographs there and the moss.
And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty,
my cheap violin and my cross.
Tag: friendship love music memory
(Quoting Goethe:)
"We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.
Tag: letters memory correspondence
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