Childhood amnesia, storytelling, and the lifelong game of memory (part one)
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It’s too easy, facile you might say, to open any piece with Joan Didion’s line, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” And much as I might like the line, the ring of it, the emotive force of it, I realize it cannot serve my purposes here. So, I wish to vary it a little to the following:
Childhood amnesia, storytelling, and the lifelong game of memory (part one)
Childhood amnesia, storytelling, and the…
Childhood amnesia, storytelling, and the lifelong game of memory (part one)
It’s too easy, facile you might say, to open any piece with Joan Didion’s line, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” And much as I might like the line, the ring of it, the emotive force of it, I realize it cannot serve my purposes here. So, I wish to vary it a little to the following: