Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces, their successes and defeats, their fevers, their undiagnosable ailments, their sudden deaths. They also have their moral and social distinctions.
Virgilia PetersonHowever often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of the heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory.
Virgilia PetersonI can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does.
Virgilia Peterson