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Yiming Ma, "These Memories Do Not Belong To Us" (Mariner Books, 2025)

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Anchoring Time, Literature, and Orwellian Themes

Ma explains using historical figures (Akebono, Kaveh Akbar) to anchor time, reflects on mind-banks' threat to literature amid AI and attention shifts, and invokes 1984's control-of-history idea.

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