Dave Eggers
This quote got me thinking today about how often I do this. How often I get stopped in my tracks and think, whoa, this is important. Do not forget this moment; these words; this capturing of an idea; this expression; this perfectly succinct crystallisation of so much. And yet sadly, I so often do.
It feels like with the amount of information one consumes in the course of an average day, that where once you might have thought "that was so spectacular, I will remember it", nowadays I find myself barely remembering what is what that stopped, me exactly, nor where I came across it, or sometimes even who wrote it or said it. I am oftentimes left with a vague sense that somebody said or wrote something really good. Which is neither impressive nor inspiring...
Perhaps he isn't referring to that at all; rather he might simply be saying that a book that tells a story is encouraging us to pay attention to the time in which it is set; perhaps the place and how it operated; maybe the workforce of an era; or the gender roles we took on at different times. In a book about WWI we might be reminded to try really hard not to go there again; a book set in or around outback Australia during a drought reminds us of the fragility of both the planet and our people. Perhaps that is what he is saying.
But I focused on forgetting particular moments and was reminded how often that happens to me.
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