MEMORY
Lists of destroyed buildings posted by the L.A. Conservancy and USModernist offer a ghost map of a past that extends far beyond living memory.
The Hidden Histories Lost in the Los Angeles Fires
Yes, a lost house itself is a tragedy, but there is an entire universe in the items inside, an entire universe in the single page of a book that drifts away while you’re running to catch a flight. There is an entire universe in a quote, an entire universe in interpretations of a book that begs for humanity to find a way to survive when our... See more
Hanif Abdurraqib • Lessons for the End of the World
But I think I would like to revise this response. I was asked in one interview if I was worried about being forgotten. I don’t remember the answer I actually gave, but the answer I wish I’d given is that my greater fear is having my memory misappropriated—being gone and having what I’ve said or done be reanimated, reduced to some bite-size... See more
Hanif Abdurraqib • Lessons for the End of the World
Besides, if my actual past remains at my fingertips, how can I mold the memories of it into something more romantic than it actually was?
Hanif Abdurraqib • Lessons for the End of the World
It’s a bit like dreaming, which is always a bit like remembering.
Tan Tuck Ming • My Grandmother Glitches the Machine
Andrea felt as if her mother had found a disease that was almost too convenient, a permanent forgetting. She told me, “I was kind of mad at her, like, Oh, yeah. You found your way out.”