Tuesday, August 09, 2005

transition to attentive recognition




…” Also a memory, but a memory profoundly different from the first, always bent upon action, seated in the present and looking only to the future. It has retained from the past only the intelligently coordinated movements which represent the accumulated efforts of the past ; and it recovers those past efforts, not in the memory-images which recall them, but in the definite order and systematic character with which the actual movements take place. In truth, it no longer represents our past to us, it acts it ; and if it still deserves the name of memory, it is not because it conserves bygone images, but because it prolongs their useful effect into the present moment….”

Smile, you know . Yes, it is her, indeed. Re-collected by Sam R., fresh from the original location. Go into the matter here, or consult Henri B. on the subject.

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