Thanks Andrew. One of Husvedt's points was that when we recall a memory and
it changes a little, the next time we recall it, we are likely to go back
to that slightly distorted memory, not the original, which is not 'saved'
in the same way as a computer file for instance.
Bill
On Thursday, 28 January 2016, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Iike these lines particularly (just for my pov):
>
>
> *Are poems reclaimed memories resorted?*
>
> Many of mine are just that, out through a sieve of today's emotions.
>
> Andrew
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> On 27 January 2016 at 22:39, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
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> > 360 odd pages, Pat. I persisted and was interested in what she had to say
> > about migraines and dreams protecting sleep but her pieces about viewing
> > art were pretty inconsequential I thought. I do recommend her husband
> Paul
> > Auster's work. I think he would pass the 10-page test eg Smoke,
> > Oracle Night, New York trilogy, In the country of last things.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On Wednesday, 27 January 2016, Patrick McManus <
> > [log in to unmask] <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > > Bill liked idea of previous readers -wondered how far page 98 was in
> the
> > > book -But sometimes one gets a book with usually pencilled comments
> some
> > > poor person on a course maybe
> > > cheers P I am training myself for a ten page rule if it does not work
> by
> > > then out with it -we don't have the time left!
> > >
> > > -----Original Message----- From: Bill Wootton
> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 8:09 AM
> > > To: [log in to unmask] <javascript:;>
> > > Subject: At least two readers
> > >
> > > Name: Keough, Michael Philip,
> > > one 'l', he must have said
> > > many a time, this
> > > previous borrower
> > > of the book I am reading,
> > > Living, Thinking, Looking,
> > > a series of essays
> > > by Siri Hustvedt,
> > > wife of novelist
> > > and poet Paul Auster.
> > >
> > > So how, I wonder,
> > > did you find Siri,
> > > Michael Philip?
> > > Not how did you come by her
> > > but how satisfied were you
> > > with what Siri offered
> > > by way of words?
> > > Your borrowing slip
> > > from Goldfields Library
> > > in Bendigo slipped
> > > from page 98, nearly
> > > halfway through
> > > an examination
> > > of the difference
> > > between memoir
> > > and fiction.
> > >
> > > Am I to assume this
> > > is where you gave
> > > Siri short shrift?
> > > If so, you did better
> > > than I did because
> > > by this point
> > > I was skimming.
> > > Not scanning you
> > > understand, not
> > > seeking particular
> > > information, just
> > > eye-raking, hoping
> > > to be arrested.
> > >
> > > 'Memory is flux',
> > > mmm. 'Fictions
> > > are remembered too'.
> > > The whereabouts
> > > of storage is moot.
> > > Are poems reclaimed
> > > memories resorted?
> > > Perhaps the next
> > > borrower will better
> > > justify their slip
> > > than you or me,
> > > Michael.
> > >
> > > bw
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew
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