Tuesday, September 04, 2012

Shape-shifting …

… BBC News - A Point Of View: JG Ballard and the alchemy of memory. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

If our memories lend a pattern to our lives, they also condemn us to repeat the past - especially when they concern traumatic events. We struggle to rid ourselves of the traces that are left in us by painful episodes in our lives; but these buried images never go away, only shift their shapes.

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