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Is Your Memory a Form of Fiction?
To neglect our memory is in some way to obscure or deny our very personhood. And so it becomes so crucial to say the past is present. There is, as Faulkner would say, in some sense no past at all, but the present is being played out from that. No memory is a videotape. It's not a verbatim. It is a kind of artistic creation framed from our unique way of seeing the world.