tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434966004083105957.post7708074013107045120..comments2023-03-29T12:16:13.163-04:00Comments on Formerly A&A: MemoryA&Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00199451832512165484noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434966004083105957.post-82013418692137091542009-01-07T23:47:00.000-05:002009-01-07T23:47:00.000-05:00You're absolutely right about memories. In "Out of...You're absolutely right about memories. In "Out of the silent planet" (Which you must read) Lewis makes the point (through a character) that an experiences is not complete without the memory of it, that memory is a part of the experience itself.<BR/>Great quote from What Sarah said: "It stung like a violent wind that our memories depend on a faulty camera in our minds." I've been obsessed with that line for days. Our memories are so faulty and err so often!<BR/>Anyway, Grace read this book a while back by <BR/>Milan Kundera called "Ignorance". The central idea of the novel was that memory is like ignorance, and the longer it's been since the event, the fuzzier it gets and the more we "invent" what happened.<BR/><BR/>"it surprises me by acting like (and excuse the bizarre comparison) Mac OS X Leopard's Timeline feature." <BR/>(Elliot would be proud.)<BR/>I'll be praying for your dad (I thought immediately of when water curved up on the side of a cup when you wrote "meniscus")<BR/><BR/>MichaelAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com