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Reader with non-bully intentions, Two texts: 1 Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, p202, quote: "For the important thing for the remembering author is not what he experienced, but the weaving of his memory, the Penelope work of recollection. Or should one call it, rather, a Penelope work of forgetting? Is not the involuntary recollection, Proust's 'memoire involontaire', much closer to forgetting than what is usually called memory? And is not this work of spontaneous recollection, in which remembrance is the woof and forgetting the warf, a counterpart to Penelope's work rather than its likeness? For here the day unravels what the night was woven. When we awake each morning, we hold in our hands, usually weakly and loosely, but a few fringes of the tapestry of lived life, as loomed for us by forgetting. However, with our purposeful activity and, even more, our purposive remembering each day unravels the web and the ornaments of forgetting." 2 Lighting Candles in the Darkness: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/1/29
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Cora Westerink (1965)
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Thank you for writing this poem, Charlotte Delbo. Reference: ‘Auschwitz and After’, Yale University Press, 1997. Dear Reader, If you think copyright is broken in this cast, please get in touch and it will either be removed or a citation will be added as required. Thanks for reading.
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