I just read a quote from a best selling author in NY Times Reivew of Books; she shall be named tomorrow, for my memory sometimes fails me, but she said to the effect that we write memoir to confront ourselves. True enough. It's finding a way to live with who we are and what we have done when we engage in memoir. We have to live with it; even if it is an ugly couch and a ghastly panting that inhabits the rooms and houses of our memory. Wouldn't Keats be proud of me!! ")
Helen and Teacher
The Story of my Life
Thursday, May 30, 2013
When we write Memoir
I just read a quote from a best selling author in NY Times Reivew of Books; she shall be named tomorrow, for my memory sometimes fails me, but she said to the effect that we write memoir to confront ourselves. True enough. It's finding a way to live with who we are and what we have done when we engage in memoir. We have to live with it; even if it is an ugly couch and a ghastly panting that inhabits the rooms and houses of our memory. Wouldn't Keats be proud of me!! ")
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