Specimens of memory
What I need to do is record experiences, not in the order in which they took place —for that is history —but in the order in which they first became significant for me.
- From Justine by Lawrence Durrell
To Memorize:
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To commit to memory; learn by heart
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From the chapter Pavilions of Desire (Memory) from An Alchemy of Mind by Diane Ackerman:
Our lives wouldn't make sense without personal memories pinned like butterflies against the velvet backdrop of social history.
Like an old photograph, my recall of that day has lost some of its color and clarity with passing years. But unlike a photograph, the memory isn't stored whole. pg 80
We may be the only animals with this rich form of episodic memory in which we can revise our past , play it back like a film we stop to look at , enter imaginatively, and revise as we grow older. pg 83
We collected such memories, and now re-collect them like a basket full of mushrooms. pg 86
We sometimes remodel memories. Digging around, we glue memory fragments together and lose the source information — the "tossed salad" of formal memory. pg 100
Our lives wouldn't make sense without personal memories pinned like butterflies against the velvet backdrop of social history.
Like an old photograph, my recall of that day has lost some of its color and clarity with passing years. But unlike a photograph, the memory isn't stored whole. pg 80
We may be the only animals with this rich form of episodic memory in which we can revise our past , play it back like a film we stop to look at , enter imaginatively, and revise as we grow older. pg 83
We collected such memories, and now re-collect them like a basket full of mushrooms. pg 86
We sometimes remodel memories. Digging around, we glue memory fragments together and lose the source information — the "tossed salad" of formal memory. pg 100
Walid Raad, MOMA