“Conceive of memory not only as ‘rote,’ the ability to reproduce something (whether a text, a formula, a list of items, an incident) but as the matrix of a reminiscing cogitation, shuffling and collating ‘things’ stored in a random-access memory scheme, or set of schemes – a memory architecture and a library built up during one’s lifetime with the express intention that it be used inventively.” – Mary Carruthers, The Craft of Thought
According to Lulu Titlescorer, The Q-U Conspiracy and Other Oddities of the English Language has a 10.2% chance of being a bestselling title. Hmmm...so does Social Memory and Old English Literature. Maybe I should just write Notes from the Walter J. Ong Archive, which has a 35.9% chance....
posted by John Walter @ 12:17 PM
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