a travelogue
Photos, books, links and writing related to memory
Everything tagged memory
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01/08/08
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Abandoned Wonders of America
I have a friend who is obsessed with the “lost” city that supposedly exists beneath New York City. While that’s not on this particular list, it might as well be, these are no less fascinating though. Imagine entire islands and …continue reading »
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06/18/07
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Forgetting May Be Part of the Process of Remembering
Whether drawing a mental blank on a new A.T.M. password, a favorite recipe or an old boyfriend, people have ample opportunity every day to curse their own forgetfulness. But forgetting is also a blessing, and researchers reported on Sunday that …continue reading »
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05/17/07
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TenThings: Come On, Get Thankful
From the about page: “10 Things began as a nightly list scribbled in a tiny journal: “Ten Great Things About Today.” No matter what, find ten great things about the day, even if when it’s easier to list 20 terrible …continue reading »
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01/29/07
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Kid Turns 70 And Nobody Cares
Joseph Epstein turns seventy. Nice essay: “Seventy. Odd thing to happen to a five-year-old boy who, only the other day, sang ‘Any Bonds Today,’ whose mother’s friends said he would be a heartbreaker for sure (he wasn’t), who was popular …continue reading »
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07/01/06
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Déjà Vu, Again and Again
Memory, like most systems we depend on continually, tends to fade into the background when it’s working properly. Only when it fails or misleads us do we begin to ponder its mechanisms.continue reading »
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02/03/07
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Dover Drive // Newport Beach // California
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Everything All The Time
“We’ll collect the moments one by oneI guess that’s how the future’s done” — Leslie Fiest A while back a friend of mine who I hadn’t spoken to in quite a while rang me up. At some point we got …
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Topics:
Beauty,
Culture,
Friends,
Memory,
Reflecting
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01/31/08
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The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
I haven’t had a chance to read much lately, I’ve been busy writing, which is good I guess, but if you don’t read you’ll never be a very good writer. I knew a good Murakami novel would make me drop …continue reading »
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05/26/06
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Prague // Prague // Czech Republic
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Four Minutes Thirty-Three Seconds
“He tried to gather up and hold the phrase or harmony… that was passing by him and that opened his soul so much wider, the way the smells of certain roses circulating in the damp evening air have the property …
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Topics:
Architecture,
Death,
Europe,
Holocaust,
Human Rights,
Memory,
Round The World Trip,
War
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05/22/06
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Hotel, Bled // Bled // Slovenia
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The King of Carrot Flowers Part Two
The chief attraction of Bled Slovenia is the sweeping panorama of the Julian Alps which lie just beyond its doorstep, which in this case is a lake ringed with castles, monasteries atop crags and palatial hotels that once played host …
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Butterflies,
Children,
Europe,
Flowers,
Memory,
Mountains,
Round The World Trip,
War
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05/19/06
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Downtown Ljubljana // Ljubljana // Slovenia
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Ghost
From Dubrovnik we returned north toward Slovenia, stopping along the way to spend one night in the peaceful, almost backwater, Croatia fishing village of Trogir. Like Dubrovnik, Trogir was a walled city of roughly Venetian vintage, but Trogir’s wall has …
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Topics:
Archaeology,
Europe,
Ghosts,
Memory,
Round The World Trip,
Writing
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03/07/06
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Ban Lung // Ban Lung // Cambodia
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Ticket To Ride
I can’t see. My eyebrows are orange with dust. I cannot see them, but I know they must be; they were yesterday. Every now and then when her legs clench down on my hips or her fingernails dig into my …
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Topics:
Asia,
Dreams,
Hallucinations,
Honda Dream,
Memory,
Round The World Trip
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10/15/07
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The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
From the Independent’s obituary for W. G. Sebald: "All of Max Sebald’s books were, in their own fastidious way, ghost stories. History, along with its makers and victims, signals its terrors and consolations to the living across an unbridgeable gulf …continue reading »
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10/15/07
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Vertigo by W. G. Sebald
"There is something marvelous and bracing about wandering through a maze of unanswerable questions with an eccentrically brilliant guide" - Salon Reviewcontinue reading »
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01/03/06
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Baiyoke Sky Hotel // Bangkok // Thailand
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Brink of the Clouds
Two days after Christmas, I had just finished some internet business at the McBen Coffeehouse on Sukhumvit Soi 8, but I didn’t yet feel like heading back to Khoasan Rd, so I took the sky train to Siam Square and …
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Topics:
Asia,
City,
Memory,
Nightscapes,
Reflecting,
Round The World Trip
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10/15/07
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Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
On every side the immense dark silence seemed pressing him, so tiny a speck, into extinction, and yet, almost nothing, he could not be extinct. Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun. "Stars and …continue reading »