"In its simplest form, memory refers to the continued process of information retention over time." The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning - "How Memory Works" "I know, however, of a young chronophobiac who experienced something like panic when looking for the first time at homemade movies that had been taken a few weeks before his birth. He saw a world that was practically unchanged -- the same house, the same people -- and then realized that he did not exist there at all and that nobody mourned his absence." Vladimir Nabokov - Speak, Memory "I d- / I d- / I d- / -ing, it's your move" Macintosh Plus, "リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー" I had hoped that I would experience true obsession during lockdown, jumping from one attempted hobby to another, reading the eighty-second page of every book in my apartment, laying out all my clothing in prismatic order, naming all my pint glasses ("the Dutchess," "Arthur 'The Shoppe...
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How a Resurrection Really Feels
If you want to be remembered, the historians say, keep a diary. The passage of time can transmute even the leaded mundanities of private life into the golden treasure hordes of history. Now for those of us who may have a tense relationship with shall we say futurity in general, etching ourselves into the endlessly spiraling grooves of that record called the World is a fraught prospect. First of all, who cares? Mama Cass might exhort us to sing our own special song, but "special" seems to me to be doing a lot of work there. And yet, in this current moment, with the costs of the attempt almost entirely psychic, payable in moments of early morning brooding already being deducted regularly from my account, why not? Who cares who cares? Why not open the window at midnight and scream? So here's the new Terrible Noise. Older, perhaps crankier, maybe less agile, more ossified, its undercarriage visible through the rusted-out sideboards here and there; but the motor still runs, t...