MJ Nicholls’s Reviews > Remake > Status Update

“Why do places and events matter, so neutral to others, simply because lived? Alone the old lady would have looked again, inquired, had fantasized about sailing up there into the firm to say hello. But the old lady has entered a time-warp: if seventeen then and sixty-nine now, all those older colleagues would be retired if not dead, the time-span shrunk by memory shift yet expanded by the spendthrift real.”

“Memory is thought of in time, but time is always represented spatially, hands round a clock, decades aligned, and today all the terms for memory are spatial, screening, filing, effacing, storing, labelling, visualizing, doors opening on doors, scope-gates on scape-goats, representing data-structures of the world as if all philosophy and history were not Herodotage, Clio’s clangers, Erato’s errata . . . ”