tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655653784122131754.post6656810545461057564..comments2024-03-26T16:00:23.608-04:00Comments on The Typewriter Revolution blog: Writing and memoryRichard Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16232053429935587826noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655653784122131754.post-27900019155415111932010-09-11T01:24:14.789-04:002010-09-11T01:24:14.789-04:00that last put me in mind of this:
http://www.ctheo...that last put me in mind of this:<br />http://www.ctheory.netnotagainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02915679111849352765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655653784122131754.post-50792539219801729182010-09-11T00:02:37.296-04:002010-09-11T00:02:37.296-04:00funnily enough I write to remember. My memory is s...funnily enough I write to remember. My memory is shocking - I have major trouble even memorising a text or a para of shakespeare or a multi-part joke. And when you've a whole bunch of ideas flooding in on your brain - they just fall out again with a memory like mine.<br /><br />That Phaedrus quote carries a pretty major punch - I think it's one of the key moments in philosophy. It does play down writing's virtues; and I think it also talks about all these lost worlds and kingdoms that the Egyptians remembered. To me literature is all about lost worlds anyway - which wouldn't be kept alive if not written down. <br /><br />In a decade or two we in the digital age won't be able to countenance these ideas any more - we won't have much of a memory - and Google will be our act of remembering. Insert gloomy forecast.rino breebaarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08732964644950027323noreply@blogger.com