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Memory (n.) can ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠hand you a dreary garden under a grey sky with no name attached — and no amount of staring will tell you where it was; the image gave at once all that it possessed.

Memory (n.) as ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Stendhal confessed gives him only the effects on his emotions: a clear succession of images, but the physiognomy of events only through the effect it produced in him.

Memory (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a colour is not a stored patch: shown a boy in blue trousers and a brown coat, hundreds recalled brown trousers and blue coat — in the image one colour rings through the other like a harmonic resonance.

Memory (n.) confuses ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the real and the irreal because both come back to it as past — so it hands the imagined dish a power the living moment never gave it: that of really causing the vomiting.

Memory (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠impossible in the dream: the least real memory would crystallize all of reality around this real bed — it is entirely one world or entirely the other.