One Generation After (2011)
“She refused to tell it to me. Less afraid to be judged than to be remembered, she attempted by every possible means to exorcise the story from people’s memories, to the point of almost losing her own. She would say: “Men, those fools, think they’re buying my body: what I’m selling is my memory.”
Her past, like everyone else’s, was made of words, and her future of images. Like everyone else, she had a story she did not like, a story shared with countless strangers whose sullen faces and vulgar p...eculiarities followed one another endlessly, as in a play of mirrors where the same eerie silhouette reflects itself into infinity. She took pleasure in mutilating and disguising it; she dragged it through the mud only to adorn it later with pretty lies: her tale was false from beginning to end. But wasn’t this distortion her only chance to alter it beyond recognition even to herself?
No matter. Now that she has discarded her memory, she will somehow acquire a story that will be hers and hers alone, an unblemished story beginning and ending with herself, a story lived by no one else and still unknown even to God.MoreLess
Her past, like everyone else’s, was made of words, and her future of images. Like everyone else, she had a story she did not like, a story shared with countless strangers whose sullen faces and vulgar p...eculiarities followed one another endlessly, as in a play of mirrors where the same eerie silhouette reflects itself into infinity. She took pleasure in mutilating and disguising it; she dragged it through the mud only to adorn it later with pretty lies: her tale was false from beginning to end. But wasn’t this distortion her only chance to alter it beyond recognition even to herself?
No matter. Now that she has discarded her memory, she will somehow acquire a story that will be hers and hers alone, an unblemished story beginning and ending with herself, a story lived by no one else and still unknown even to God.MoreLess
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