The second time is the one we remember, where memory begins. Putting the moments in order is only half the story. What matters is the weight of the moments as they accumulate.
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How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?
You can repeat things because it's on a set and there are actors. But if it's a great moment and you don't capture it, it's rare to get that moment again.
However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory -not on the order of actual occurrence.
Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.
I think we all have those moments at one point or other in our lives... when we see someone and immediately imagine a whole universe around them. A relationship, a future, and all based on just a second which might not even have been in their company. It's amazing how quickly the human mind can come up with this stuff.
Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love.
Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand.
I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
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