By: Marc Fenton:
“The backward glance is distorted by the lens of the present….Memory distorts memory. Is all memory simply the application of narrative to past events, and is it only human and coherent to do that work?” Dana Spiotta, Stone, Arabia
When I read the novel Stone, Arabia last year, some passages about memory really grabbed me. The author remarked on how we can never actually remember anything perfectly. Because the narrator’s mother suffers from dementia, she is trying to piece together fragments from her own past. She appears to be saying that we are taking experiences and creating narratives, using words to describe them. To me, that is part of why no two people can ever remember anything exactly the same way. We each possess different vocabularies, histories, and contexts for what we see, hear, and taste. One person’s cold can be another’s hot even when the temperature is 60 degrees.
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