"For Marker, memory isn’t passive; it’s an act of resistance—
the edge that cuts a path into the future—and the effective work
of memory is the very definition of art."
— July 30, 2012 in The New Yorker… Richard Brody on the late
film editor Chris Marker.
"… the effective work of memory is the very definition of art."
— "In Memoriam: Chris Marker," by Richard Brody,
New Yorker weblog post, July 30, 2012
New York Lottery this evening: 178, 0772.
Definition: See 178 on May 25, 2012.
Art: See 772 on Nov. 21, 2010 and Harvard Black Diamond.
Moonshine:
The time of this post, 8:28, may be taken as
a reference to the date, 8/28, of the Feast of St. Augustine.
Augustine's remarks on memory are not without interest.
"In reality, my prose books
probably sit between
I Was a Teenage Sex Slave
and some other contemporary
memoir written in five minutes…."
— Mary Karr in the NY Times
of July 6, 2007
See also
Ballet Blanc
and the true story
0, 1, 2, 3, ….
"In a dream scenario, my memoirs…
would find another shelf.
They’d sit between St. Augustine
and Nabokov’s Speak, Memory…."
— Mary Karr, loc. cit.
Recall the
mnemonic rhyme
"Nine is a Vine."
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