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MEMORY 3/8/2014 12:57:14 PM
Memory is a tricky thing. MEMORY
For me, memory is never a linear experience, but rather it is layers of archival remnants in which I see myself as variable characters wandering in and out of historical sequence; these remnants being either rich in color and detail or uncertainly vague and easily mistaken for dreams; or perhaps, as I sometimes imagine, memory is a glimpse into a life preceding mine or the merest teasing brush with a parallel existence.
But then at other times these fragments seem like faded snapshots which emerge through a somewhat distorted lens, creating images that are as much myth as reality, and reality itself bends undetected by the human eye as light does; all of which means, in the end, my carefully rendered fable must be taken for truth on faith, especially since the sum of it all may fail to produce even the faintest spark of epiphany. But what intrigues me most about memory is how different I seem to be today from what recollection has me at my beginning, while I remain composed of every part of all that I have ever been.
