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Reminds of Julian Jayne's essay, where he says that remembering is essentially re-narrating memories to yourself.
by the_gipsy 3y ago
Reminds of Julian Jayne's essay, where he says that remembering is essentially re-narrating memories to yourself.
- beebeepka 3y agoI think it goes beyond simple rearranging. We actively change them. Maybe not many people are immune to this
- taylorius 3y ago“But every person has their own encyclopedia written, which grows out from each soul, composed from birth onward, hundreds of thousands of pages pressing into each other and yet there’s air between them! Like trembling leaves in a forest. A book of contradictions. What’s in there is revised by the moment; the images touch themselves up, the words flicker. A wave washes through the entire text, followed by the next wave, and the next . . .” - Tomas Transtromer.