Like watches ticking on the wrists of dead soldiers.
--Jean Cocteau
If you live long enough, the process of memory ruthless condenses your experiences consigning much to oblivion.
--Robert Kaplan, Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age
The alleys at night intimate chambers of of just remembered dreams and childhood
-- Robert Kaplan, Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age
Journey taken in youth inform the rest of our lives -- they are markers of of change in us as well as the rest of the world
--WSJ, April ?, 2023in idleness I've spent
--fragment of a poem that I can't recall attribution.
I had become my ancestors
--The Growing Seasons, Samuel Hynes Man, if he is ever any good never gets over being a boy.
--Sherwood Anderson
Memories lengthen the land
--Walter Havighurst
When considering new innovations, the Supreme. Court must tread carefully so as not to embarrass the future.
--NW Airlines v. Minnesota, 322 U.S. 292, 300 (1949)
A library without members is a like a cemetery. Books are like people. Without contact they cease to exist.
--can't remember attribution but I'd like to say Jorge Luis Broges
...at times there came a startled sense of wonder and unrealized opportunity.
--Sherwood Anderson...time is not cool...
--NPR interview with a Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (ok, I cheated on this one, it was aired in December 2022)My observations
The right to be forgotten is a formula of truth verses time.
Time is the highway that memory travel down after the journey has been made.
Memory is more a poem than a transcript.
These quotes don't fit into my themes but I'm adding anyway because I liked them enough to write down.
Everyone is ignorant only on different subjects.
--Will Rogers
There
is nothing as easy as denouncing...it doesn't take much to see
something is wrong but it takes some eyesight to see what will put it
right.
--Will Rogers
Courtesy is the very basis for all mutual respect and concord.
--ErasmusThe hoi poloi's hobledihoi poo-pooed the hub-bub.
--My best homemade nonsense sentence of 2023
