‘I remember.’ – ‘What do you remember?’ – ‘I remember.’ – ‘But what if memory does not permit the perdurance of the I?’ – ‘I remember.’ – ‘And if it is not the "I" that remembers, but memory that remembers itself, interiorising itself, hardening itself into a form with limits, with determinacy?’ ‘ -I remember.’ – ‘Unless what you are is given by memorising, by the contraction of memory into determinate events in linear sequence.’
‘I remember.’ – ‘And what you are is the folding of memory into interiority, the act of synthesis blind only to the need to secure the form of the self.’ – ‘I remember.’ – ‘The power of memory remembers itself in you. Memory memorises, and so is the remembering self born.’ – ‘I remember’. – ‘No one remembers; the "I" comes after, as an effect of memory’. – ‘I remember.’ – ‘Memory desired you. Memory wanted you to be born. Remembering asked for you. The power of memory asked for a body. Remembering wanted to be born a mortal. You are the avatar of memory’.
‘I remember’. – ‘Avatar, you are the game memory plays with itself. Once, the gods asked Shiva how it was he could live as an ascetic when he had never lived, as was required, as a householder? Straightaway, Shiva gave birth to himself as a mortal; he married, had children, lived a long life and died. When he opened his eyes, an instant later, it was as a god again among other gods. So with remembering, which is not even a god. So memory, which is the internalisation of the exteriority of time’.
‘I remember’. – ‘Proxy, yours is not the power of memory; you do not own it. The power to remember is given, not taken, and what is given can also be withdrawn. Do you remember? That is not your power. Remembering happens; memory invents a body for itself, the event reduces itself so it can lend itself to the fiction of interiority’. – ‘I remember’. – ‘Memory remembers itself; memory is the pearl that invents the shell; who are you that are born from the chance of remembering? Who that comes to himself when memory deigns to give itself an agent?’
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