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Am I losing my mind? What the fuck does this have to do with “the moment?” I feel just as narrativized as I ever was, those experiences were still experiences, so they had packed into them this feeling of recollection, like always. I was imagining what it would be like to recount that moment, what it would be like to remember it and be haunted by i
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I think a lot of people are dismissive of their best thoughts. They can’t put their observations on paper because they’ve already censored them in their mind. They don’t have confidence that what they see is real, because to believe that it’s real requires them to believe that their understanding of the world is as valid as anyone else’s.
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... See moreAt a certain point, all memory is fiction. What we retain of the past is selective—our brain typically glosses over the finer details—even the substance of it is subject to change. Our past, much like our present and future, is fluid, constantly running, and not even Memory can step in that same river twice. The memoir, however, attempts to fix wha
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