As if words could make a difference

January 22, 2024 12:32 AM

What a concatenation of memories, then, strung itself together when I read Ken’s name in Raritan! The individual links in the chain are surprisingly vivid, but put them together and the result is as jumbled as a dream. As one gets older, dreams and memories become increasingly indistinguishable anyway. The occasions mashed together or juxtaposed; the different roles I was playing; the varied fields of knowledge, each with its distinct vocabulary and bibliography, each impinging on my life from a different direction, each with its own kind of urgency: had this congeries been in abeyance for the decade that had elapsed from 2006 to 2016? from The Trembling Web and the Storage Facility by Rachel Hadas
posted by chavenet (1 comment total)

This was lovely. Thanks for posting.
posted by latkes at 11:09 AM on January 22 [2 favorites]