Monday, April 09, 2012

Coming to terms …

… Boston Review — Roger Boylan: Back in Time (Julian Barnes).


Memory is fallible; no news there. We all tinker with it to suit our needs. Given long enough, a false memory can substitute for a real one, or none. And memory isn’t a single entity, anyway. It’s all over the place, responding to different fears and desires: the past is subjective.

Read the whole thing. This is an excellent piece.

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