Thanks, Doug. Yes I like that notion too about memory being fiction.
Elaborate fiction sometimes.
Bill
On Friday, 29 January 2016, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> So I don’t know if I would read her, but others have made these arguments
> too, & I tend to agree.So I too like the line Andrew was taken by. For me,
> for a long time, ‘memory is fiction’ has been one of my mantras…
>
> Doug
> > On Jan 27, 2016, at 8:45 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > 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]
> <javascript:;>> 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:;>
> >> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>
> >>> 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:;> <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:;> <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
> >> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> >> Books available through Walleah Press
> >> http://walleahpress.com.au
> >>
>
> Douglas Barbour
> [log in to unmask] <javascript:;>
> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
>
> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
> 2 (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>
> Done in by creation itself.
>
> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
>
> Robert Kroetsch.
>
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