#recollection — Public Fediverse posts
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The Mercy of Forgetting: The Story Leads the Telling, and Perfect Memory Is the Enemy of Inspiration
At a dinner table, the worst storyteller is often the person with the best memory. He begins with the route to the restaurant, the trouble finding parking, the waiter’s name, the table beside the kitchen, the appetizer nobody liked, and the exact minute when rain began ticking against the window. Twenty minutes later, he has not reached the thing that made the evening worth recounting. He is not lying. His defect is more serious. He has not decided what happened. Every remembered detail has presented itself for admission, and he lacks a law of relevance. The salt cellar enjoys the same narrative standing as the marriage proposal. The price of the wine competes with the sentence that ended a friendship. Accuracy has occupied the table, ordered dessert, and refused to leave. The teller possesses the evening as an archive, but not yet as a story. […] -
The Mercy of Forgetting: The Story Leads the Telling, and Perfect Memory Is the Enemy of Inspiration
At a dinner table, the worst storyteller is often the person with the best memory. He begins with the route to the restaurant, the trouble finding parking, the waiter’s name, the table beside the kitchen, the appetizer nobody liked, and the exact minute when rain began ticking against the window. Twenty minutes later, he has not reached the thing that made the evening worth recounting. He is not lying. His defect is more serious. He has not decided what happened. Every remembered detail has presented itself for admission, and he lacks a law of relevance. The salt cellar enjoys the same narrative standing as the marriage proposal. The price of the wine competes with the sentence that ended a friendship. Accuracy has occupied the table, ordered dessert, and refused to leave. The teller possesses the evening as an archive, but not yet as a story. […] -
The Mercy of Forgetting: The Story Leads the Telling, and Perfect Memory Is the Enemy of Inspiration
At a dinner table, the worst storyteller is often the person with the best memory. He begins with the route to the restaurant, the trouble finding parking, the waiter’s name, the table beside the kitchen, the appetizer nobody liked, and the exact minute when rain began ticking against the window. Twenty minutes later, he has not reached the thing that made the evening worth recounting. He is not lying. His defect is more serious. He has not decided what happened. Every remembered detail has presented itself for admission, and he lacks a law of relevance. The salt cellar enjoys the same narrative standing as the marriage proposal. The price of the wine competes with the sentence that ended a friendship. Accuracy has occupied the table, ordered dessert, and refused to leave. The teller possesses the evening as an archive, but not yet as a story. […] -
A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person?
[Pourquoi faut-il que nous ayons assez de mémoire pour retenir jusqu’aux moindres particularités de ce qui nous est arrivé, et que nous n’en ayons pas assez pour nous souvenir combien de fois nous les avons contées à une même personne?]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶313 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
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Estoy viendo a @SamMeister hablar de #PreservacionDigital, me encanta que enliste a las #instituciones como uno de los grandes depredadores de nuestras #memoriasdigitales. Me recuerda a @jonippolito y si texto #DeathByInstitution en su libro #ReCollection
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Estoy viendo a @SamMeister hablar de #PreservacionDigital, me encanta que enliste a las #instituciones como uno de los grandes depredadores de nuestras #memoriasdigitales. Me recuerda a @jonippolito y si texto #DeathByInstitution en su libro #ReCollection
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Estoy viendo a @SamMeister hablar de #PreservacionDigital, me encanta que enliste a las #instituciones como uno de los grandes depredadores de nuestras #memoriasdigitales. Me recuerda a @jonippolito y si texto #DeathByInstitution en su libro #ReCollection
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Estoy viendo a @SamMeister hablar de #PreservacionDigital, me encanta que enliste a las #instituciones como uno de los grandes depredadores de nuestras #memoriasdigitales. Me recuerda a @jonippolito y si texto #DeathByInstitution en su libro #ReCollection
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Estoy viendo a @SamMeister hablar de #PreservacionDigital, me encanta que enliste a las #instituciones como uno de los grandes depredadores de nuestras #memoriasdigitales. Me recuerda a @jonippolito y si texto #DeathByInstitution en su libro #ReCollection