On forgetting as a kind of doing
We treat forgetting as something that happens to us, never as something we do. But some forgetting looks suspiciously like an action — and that has consequences for whether we can be responsible for it.
ReadThere's a character in García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, Melquíades, who spends his days writing manuscripts no one can read in a language no one speaks. He seems perfectly content with this — perhaps the only character who achieves any semblance of peace. This blog exists in that spirit.
We treat forgetting as something that happens to us, never as something we do. But some forgetting looks suspiciously like an action — and that has consequences for whether we can be responsible for it.
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