Memory
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2020-05-29
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Try to define memory and you may well wind up with a riddle.
MEMORY:
A totalizing fragment.
A receptacle and that which fills it.
A nebulous noun forged out of definite verbs (yes, they definitely occurred)
that may then encode those verbs unfaithfully—
as shadows,
as inventions,
as questions,
as convictions.
A shapeshifting piece of history that leads us toward future unknowns.
Moments, passed, that continue to cling to us.
A past we cannot move beyond.
Fuel and flame.
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This essay is published as Dees, Sarah, “Memory”. The Immanent Frame. May 29, 2020.; https://tif.ssrc.org/2020/05/29/memory-dees/ .Posted with permission.
Under CC 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Under CC 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/