Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactlywhat was it I wanted to remember? How much of it actually happened?Did any of it? Why do I keep a notebook at all? It is easy to deceive oneselfon all those scores.
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I imagine, in other words, that the notebook is about other people. But of course it is not. I have no real business with what one stranger said to another at the hatcheck counter in Pavillon; in fact I suspect that the line “That’s my old football number” touched not my own imagination at all, but merely some memory of something once read, probabl
... See moreby the “ideas” with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.
Joan Didion noted, “I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking.”
“I’m not writing it down to remember it later, I’m writing it down to remember it now.”