Tag: Memory
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20. Bodies in the Altar
My friend Jason asked me to elaborate further “about graves as the first location markers, the relation with parts of Genesis focusing on burials, the relation to pilgrimage and veneration of saints, and especially if this informs (or is informed by) your medieval travel narrative interests.” A big ask, a big topic, but a journey […]
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Memory and History
Inspired by the passage from Plutarch quoted below. Memory[i] and history are inextricably linked, the latter having its origin in the former. With their typical perceptiveness the Greeks recognized this lineage, all the arts descend from memory and the God. Hesiod: [The muses] in Pieria[ii] did Mnemosyne (Memory), who reigns over the hills of Eleuther, […]
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Hanover Tigers, Memory, and Place
Eternally trying to post more and to allow myself to post more scattered thoughts and fragments. Thus, a small note from Ritter’s fanastic The Glory of Their Times. For those who’ve forgotten, the book is an oral history of baseball at the turn of the century and, in my opinion, the best thing written on the sport. […]
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On Memory
A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hman, as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing. The seroni could say it better than I say it now. Not better than I could say it in a poem. What you call remembering […]
Dan Yingst 