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A: Let’s start again.

B: Start again?

A: Yes, You’ll see the suffering goes by quicker the second time.

B: That’s Andy Warhol. What a privilege it is to choose what I show, which stories I tell, which parts of myself mean the most.

A: Is this power?

B: Whose memory is it?

A: Of what are memories

B: That’s Paul Ricouer. For repetition, paradoxically, is always new.

A: That’s Brian Dillion. never for the first time but for the 2nd to the nth time.

B: Diana Taylor. because all consciousness is consciousness of something

A: To remember something is at the same time to remember oneself

B: To remember is to have a memory or to set off in search of a memory, more Ricouer

A: Present representation of a past thing, Plato

B: All memory is of the past, Aristotle

A: The image is an enactment of remembering, of homesickness.

B: Try again. Fail again. Fail better, Samuel Beckett

A: for up ahead in shadow, the past waits, John Ashbery

B: we seek the approval of others because we cannot get our own, Penny Arcade

A: What is all this suffering? Maybe I’m blessed, Bill T. Jones

B: The stories we tell ourselves

A: The truths we hide

B: Who was present at the death of christ

A: Who fought the wars

B: Where do you come from

A: Who are you

B: I don’t know! I don’t have singular answers to these multiple questions. With each passing tick I get a little farther away. for I’m stuck in a moment that happened years ago, Mindy Rawlinson. Sometimes when I’m dancing I’m not dancing, do you know what I mean?