Comments on: Memory http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/memory/ falling indelibly into the past Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:13:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Francois Lachance http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/memory/#comment-1875 Francois Lachance Mon, 24 Nov 2003 13:23:55 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=811#comment-1875 <p>KF, Ever read Kate Millet’s _Flying_? There is a passage about patterning. A series of daily exercises to ensure a child’s development described in a fashion very similar to your memory: adults acutally programming hands-on the limbs of the infant who otherwise would not develop. </p> KF, Ever read Kate Millet’s _Flying_? There is a passage about patterning. A series of daily exercises to ensure a child’s development described in a fashion very similar to your memory: adults acutally programming hands-on the limbs of the infant who otherwise would not develop.

]]> By: RLB http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/memory/#comment-1874 RLB Sun, 23 Nov 2003 10:32:10 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=811#comment-1874 <p>What a fascianting story re memory. I think Jill is right. Blogs do work well in this way. This one stitches together a proposed narrative line that ó more so than in a novel or biography ó we recognize as tentative and feeling its way forward, yet it achieves a certain, clear authenticity. There’s art in this, don’t you think? </p> What a fascianting story re memory. I think Jill is right. Blogs do work well in this way. This one stitches together a proposed narrative line that ó more so than in a novel or biography ó we recognize as tentative and feeling its way forward, yet it achieves a certain, clear authenticity. There’s art in this, don’t you think?

]]> By: Jill http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/memory/#comment-1873 Jill Sun, 23 Nov 2003 08:26:48 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=811#comment-1873 <p>Reading this, I’m wondering whether blogs might be particularly well suited to tales memory - reading this several days after having read about the email from your father is wonderful, narratively speaking, and I really like that I didn’t know it was coming, unlike in a book where I’d have assumed a narrative structure all along and expected more. Memories do come unasked for, and not all at once when you’re wanting them - and the episodic way in which you write and read a blog works great for that. Have you seen <a href="http://www.users.on.net/blane/milon" rel="nofollow">Milon’s Memory</a>? It’s an obituary written for Milon, a friend of the writer who died twenty years ago, but the form is that of a blog, with occasional entries when something reminds the writer of Milon. </p> <p> I hope you don’t mind my treating your memories as literature and narrative. I like your blog and your writing :) </p> Reading this, I’m wondering whether blogs might be particularly well suited to tales memory - reading this several days after having read about the email from your father is wonderful, narratively speaking, and I really like that I didn’t know it was coming, unlike in a book where I’d have assumed a narrative structure all along and expected more. Memories do come unasked for, and not all at once when you’re wanting them - and the episodic way in which you write and read a blog works great for that. Have you seen Milon’s Memory? It’s an obituary written for Milon, a friend of the writer who died twenty years ago, but the form is that of a blog, with occasional entries when something reminds the writer of Milon.

I hope you don’t mind my treating your memories as literature and narrative. I like your blog and your writing :)

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