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Only by commiting to memory the entire universe, and casting on it a universe of images, could all the things in the universe be remembered.
—John Crowley, Solitudes
Only by commiting to memory the entire universe, and casting on it a universe of images, could all the things in the universe be remembered.
Wikipedia on the art of memory.
shades of borges.
If a surplus of adrenaline makes us remember, it stands to reason that a deficit of adrenaline would help us forget. And this is what propranolol does. It inhibits the chemical rush that makes memories hyperconcrete. It doesn’t erase memories, but it makes them more abstract and less painful.”>