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Tag Archives: memory
At School Boys Longing Long Gone
At School Boys Longing Long Gone We always hoped the big round gray clock in the front corridor with its black hands would fall to the floor and smash into a million smithereens but no it never did it never … Continue reading
Posted in Musings, Prose
Tagged junior high school students, longing, memory, pursuit, school boys, school clocks, school girls, school memories
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From Sontag’s Regarding The Pain of Others
Photographs that everyone recognizes are now a constituent part of what a society chooses to think about, or delcares that it has chosen to think about. It calls these ideas “memories,” and that is, over the long run , … Continue reading
From Sontag’s Regarding The Pain of Others
But why is there not already, in the nation’s capital, which happens to be a city whose population is overwhelmingly Africa-American, a Museum of the History of Slavery? Indeed, there is no Museum of the History of Slavery—the whole story, … Continue reading
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Tagged American exceptionalism, memory, Regarding the Pain of Others, slavery in America, Susan Sontag
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