Memory has a spottiness, as if the film was sprinkled with developer instead of immersed in it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
Memory is the thing you forget with.
Before movies, memory unspooled differently in the mind, trailing off in dust-blasted fade-out rather than spliced-together flashback; before photography, memory rippled like a reflection on water's surface, less precise but more profoundly true.
Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.
Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
Memory narrativises itself.
Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needlessly. Memory contradicts itself; pedant that it is, it will have its way.
Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared.
I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like that at all. It's a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you're filling in spaces.
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