Neat. It sure does connect, Tina...
Doug
On 6-Jun-07, at 1:09 PM, Tina Bass wrote:
> Salt, Slavery and Other Hauntings: Deborah Jack's Shore (2004)
>
> The act of imagination is bound up with memory. You know, they
> straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for
> houses and livable acreage. Occasionally the river floods these
> places. 'Floods' is the word they use, but in fact it is not flooding;
> it is remembering. Remembering where it used to be. All water has a
> perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
> [Artists] are like that: Remembering where we were, what valley we ran
> through, what the banks were like, the light that was there and the
> route back to our original place. It is emotional memory -- what the
> nerves and the skin remember as well as how it appeared. And a rush of
> imagination is our 'flooding' (Morrison, T. 1995).
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