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?
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?