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Commentary
I don’t have the energy right now for yet another essay on the frustrations stemming from my leaky memory. But here are some bullet points. Is there a pattern?
- One or another of my very good friends will occasionally astound me by quoting something I said to them twenty or thirty years ago
- Of the 400+ poems that I have published on this website, I could quote only one or two from memory; generally, I forget my poems within 5 minutes of writing them
- I tend to remember names of people and flowers
- I tend not to learn or remember things unless I think they’re true
- I remember ideas, not their specific formulation
- Sometimes I’m glad that I forget things that aren’t necessarily true; I suspect some people consider anything they remember ipso facto true
How about you? I’d love to hear your bullet points!
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