Saved by Chiara Leigh and
The Same Damned Thing Over and Over
I have to realize the street gives me back a primitive reflection of whatever load of hope or fear I am carrying about with me that day, Gornick continues, making me wonder about what loads I might be carrying. I guess I don’t know what’s beautiful to anyone else, anyway — I don’t know if that young dad with his perfect baby will ever think about
... See more“I turn sentences around. That’s my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch. Then I come back in and write another sentence. Then I have tea and turn the new sentence around. Then I lie down on my sofa and think. Then I get up and throw them out and start from the
... See moreif everyone remembered everything, would our differences get shaved away? What would happen to our sense of self? It seemed to me that a perfect memory couldn’t be a narrative any more than unedited security-cam footage could be a feature film.