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I am looking for works on memory: poems, plays, short stories, novels, philosophical essays, theology, mysticism. I'm particularly interested in the relationship of memory to self or sense of self, and also in questions of time and memory, that is, works that question the assumption of the objectivity of time and which thematize this question through a meditation, of any sort, on memory. This request could give rise to an unmanageably long reading list (although it might not). So I'm just looking for favorites. And preferably, though not necessarily, of reasonable length. Thanks. (A note on 'thematize.' Sorry, it was popular in grad school. I couldn't help myself.  )
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you must include as an illustration, Salvador Dali's painting, "persistance of Memory"
i am sure every one here knows--or at least remembers it!
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Wow! That's a challenge to think about. Helen oft makes a good start, as she has here.
I don't *think this is the kind of thing you're looking for, but its sentimentality is appealing and perhaps belongs to a particular period, like the contemporaneous sentimental Victorian painters.
Pierrette in Memory
By William Griffith
1876-1936
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Pierrette has gone, but it was not
Exactly that she died,
So much as vanished and forgot
To tell where she would hide.
To keep a sudden rendezvous,
It came into her mind
That she was late. What could she do
But leave distress behind?
Afraid of being in disgrace,
And hurrying to dress,
She heard there was another place
In need of loveliness.
She went so softly and so soon,
She hardly made a stir;
But going took the stars and moon
And sun away with her
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Proust's Remembrance of Things Past (or In Search of Lost Time, depending on the publisher) fits your theme nicely, but I would hesitate to call its length reasonable.  My edition consists of seven volumes, and I've only managed to get through one and a half in the several years I've owned it. I find Proust to be rather like cheesecake-- very good, but very dense and rich. I can't consume too much at one time.
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very good, but very dense and rich.
And of questionable nutritional value?
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Good to see your smiling post, Alicia! Welcome back.
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Yes, I'm onto Proust. I found two volumes of a new translation (actually seven new translations, since seven translators were involved) at the Strand yesterday. So far, I love reading him -- it literally feels good.
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Insel, you have go to read An Anthropologist on Mars. It was suggested to me by Wow if I remember correctly. It includes several case studies on folks with neurological traumas, and memory issues are discussed often.
It is extremely interesting (thanks Wow for the suggestion).
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PS if you run a search, using the word anthropologist, you are likey to find a thread with a URL to an exerpt from the book (by Oliver Sacks--you could google his namd too, and find it)
not too long ago(last 6 months?)
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An Anthropologist on Mars. It was suggested to me by Wow if I remember correctly.
Oh my goodness to heavens! Never so erudite I.
But thank you, thank you, thank you, for elevating my status among the literati. However mistaken, I'll take it! ;)
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