Memory Resurrects

Marcel Proust’s famous tea & madeleine excerpt from Volume I of his À la recherche du temps perdu suggests that remembering the dead can bring them back to life. Their souls are imprisoned in material objects, earthbound until we set them free.

Remembering is thus a sacred obligation, and forgetting, I might add, can be tantamount to an act of murder.

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      1. I think it was Chaucer who said about the whore on the pilgrimage, “ she had had the world as in her time.” We have both maximized our time on the planet. 

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