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... See moreA friend of mine lost the ability to form memories for a few days last week and it really hammered home that being in the present isn't all that great — it is the layering of the past onto the present that gives stuff meaning.
This makes me think: if having no memory robs the present of meaning, actively forming more memories should make life richer
Memento Mori
Daniel Wentsch • 5 cards
Mnemosyne, mother of memories,
Madeline Miller • CIRCE
Frances Yates’ The Art of Memory: describes how Cicero helped popularize this story in De Oratore, his 55 BCE treatise that introduced five canons of rhetoric: Invention [included the memorization of facts], Arrangement, Style, Memory, and Delivery. … Cicero described Memory as something at once more dynamic and more intimate than Invention. It
... See moregrief and remembering
Rob Tourtelot • 24 cards
contemplation
MargaretC • 1 card
There are three conditions of memory—(1) Impression. (2) Its Preservation. (3) Its Revival. We are mainly concerned
A. (Alphonse) Loisette • Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget
