"As of his sixth birthday next month, he will have 2,462 seconds, his entire life compressed as I wanted to remember it, into approximately 41 minutes."
Kristin Winet for Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature: https://panoramajournal.org/issues/issue-14-survival/survival-active-recall
"Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding."
--Milan Kundera, Book of Laughter and Forgetting, 1980, apparently predicting social media and the future of the internet.
Years later, after everyone’s death
River of Forgetting
Kathryn Kimball
#Poetry #KathrynKimball #Forgetting #EunoiaReview #MerchantMarine
https://eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2025/04/17/river-of-forgetting/
A quotation from George Carlin
The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I’m left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can’t quite remember.
George Carlin (1937-2008) American comedian
Book (1997), Brain Droppings, “Short Takes (Part 1)”
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/carlin-george/76227/
New entry of AI-generated #comics and #jokes added to our #website:
#Fighting and #Forgetting
comics.lucentinian.com/6378
#DailyJokes #AILaughs #Comedy #AIHumor #AIJokes
"Please remember what you were about to forget." How a recorded announcement on Japanese buses sticks in my mind (and maybe yours).
i was so busy #never #forgetting
WRITER FUEL: Forgetting may provide a surprising evolutionary benefit, experts say.
https://www.limfic.com/2025/02/11/writer-fuel-does-forgetting-have-an-evolutionary-benefit/
Finished Memory: An Anthology. Really enjoyed the range of snippets included (classics -> modern day)
![After I had written the poem the flight [from a bully] itself was changed, and with that my feelings towards it. A psychologist would say that this was because I had suppressed my knowledge of my cowardice, and that it could trouble me only so long as I suppressed it. That may be so, but what it was that made me stop suppressing it is another question. I think there must be a mind within our minds which cannot rest until it has worked out, even against our conscious will, the unresolved questions of our past (Edwin Muir, 1954, Autobiography)](https://cdn.masto.host/scholarsocial/media_attachments/files/113/962/691/568/334/140/original/2c2bf56f2f63e057.png "After I had written the poem the flight [from a bully] itself was changed, and with that my feelings towards it. A psychologist would say that this was because I had suppressed my knowledge of my cowardice, and that it could trouble me only so long as I suppressed it. That may be so, but what it was that made me stop suppressing it is another question. I think there must be a mind within our minds which cannot rest until it has worked out, even against our conscious will, the unresolved questions of our past (Edwin Muir, 1954, Autobiography)")
"Like you, I too have tried with all my might not to forget. Like you, I forgot. Like you, I wanted to have an inconsolable memory, a memory of shadows and stone.
For my part, I struggled with all my might, every day, against the horror of no longer understanding at all the reason for remembering. Like you, I forgot."
(Hiroshima mon amour AQI Caruth, Traumatic Awakenings, p. 34)
"[O]fficial silence is another form of appropriation. It prevents public witnessing. It forges a secret history, an act of political resistance through keeping alive the memory of things denied.
The totalitarian state rules by collective forgetting, by denying the collective experience of suffering, and thus creates a culture of terror."
Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman, “The Appeal of Experience; The Dismay of Images" (1998): 17.
"Please remember what you were about to forget." How a recorded announcement on Japanese buses sticks in my mind (and maybe yours).
We truly become ourselves when we forget ourselves.
I'd not read A Small Town in Germany, the only early Le Carre I'd missed. Quite extraordinary in its relevance today, for all its historical situatedness.
Why You Feel Like You’re #Failing (And How to Stop)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBDzfw1jiOc
"Feeling like you’re #failingatlife? Same. I’ve been #droppingballs left and right—late to things, #forgetting stuff, constantly #apologizing. Turns out, I overbuilt my life! In this episode, I share why it happens, what I’m doing about it, and how you can stop adding more and start building a life you can actually enjoy."
the jazz drifting out of open windows
The Taste of Forgetting
Rodney Wood
#Poetry #RodneyWood #BlackNoreReview #Forgetting
https://blacknorereview.wordpress.com/2024/11/25/rodney-wood-the-taste-of-forgetting/
I keep #forgetting to start Teams and Zoiper when I start using my computer earlier in the morning than I start work.
So I just made a small #Python script that is run by #cron to check if today is a #workday and if so run the programs.
I love #scripting shit like this!
rk & Friendship! 
