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Remembering, Forgetting, and Irony: Thinking About Kundera
According to his translators, Milan Kundera writes, “remembering is a form of forgetting.” Why? Remembering is always a reconstruction and, eventually, a construction. Remembering can’t reproduce an experience. At best, it refers to it. Eventually, remembering creates a wholly different experience, with almost no connection to the original experience. Kundera also sets immediate experience — […]
A Day on the Beach, Learning Not to Teach to Remember
January 22, 2009
Sitting on L’Ance Aux Epine beach in Grenada, I watched a man try to train a puppy. Despite his obvious affection for the puppy, he employed negative reinforcement as a teaching aid. I recalled two facts, while I watched him teach, and it got me thinking about the relationship between teaching, learning, and remembering. 1) […]
Tangelico, A Play in One Act
December 4, 2008
Jacob has the space booked. He is certain of it. He has proof, evidence, and memories. Furthermore, there are rules, systems, and procedures designed to resolve this very kind of conflict. Unfortunately, Jenna and Samantha won’t leave him alone, won’t let him get back to doing whatever he was doing — and would be doing […]
February 18, 2013
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