“(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.” MemoriesConsciousnessStrangeExpectationsStoresEchoesAcousticsReplica Author:Julio Cortazar
“Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of our memory, for it is anything but ours; it works on its own terms, it assists us while deceiving us or perhaps deceives up to assist us.” ShouldSpeakTermMemoriesDeceivingSchemesTrapsOur Memories Author:Julio Cortazar
“Now that I think about it, it seems to me that’s what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all the time about anything you like, so that a drawing on the wall does not have to be diminished by the memory of the frescoes of Giotto in Padua.” ThinkingDoeSeemsMemoriesAbilityWallCriticismDrawingEnthusiasticIdiocyGiotto Author:Julio Cortazar
“But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself,into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously.” IfsFeelingsFacesLanguageMemoriesBehindsTeachingPureSpeechSmellRepeatsDictionaryVerbsAdjectivesHopscotch Book:Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much Source: Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much
