tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9055056.post9184541805592437694..comments2023-06-20T04:28:32.298-07:00Comments on The Lost Notebook: The Consolations of the LostBill Herberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06993604756613831692noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9055056.post-27912490806893137722009-01-06T14:55:00.000-08:002009-01-06T14:55:00.000-08:00Yes, I've always had a good memory for the geograp...Yes, I've always had a good memory for the geography of a book, though a rather bad one for quotes, song lyrics, jokes, street names, card games. <BR/><BR/>So I wouldn't be able to reel off lines by a given writer, but I'd go to a bookcase (and my bookcases are not alphabetised and rarely logicaly ordered), find the book, and know approxiately where in the book the desired quote was. <BR/><BR/>Not that this is 100% the case...Bill Herberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06993604756613831692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9055056.post-44426173534981718112008-12-30T01:45:00.000-08:002008-12-30T01:45:00.000-08:00The reason I ask is that I'm surprised at how good...The reason I ask is that I'm surprised at how good our memory generally is for text organised on a page. I can often remember that something was halfway up on the left-hand side, for example, better than I can recall the details of its meaning. Is it thus for you?Charles Fernyhoughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04077012181124807825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9055056.post-34773353223347432822008-12-19T07:12:00.000-08:002008-12-19T07:12:00.000-08:00I'm both imagining the book as a physical construc...I'm both imagining the book as a physical construct, and remembering ('reliving')the experiences that I wrote about.Bill Herberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06993604756613831692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9055056.post-60220226871193239982008-12-17T01:02:00.000-08:002008-12-17T01:02:00.000-08:00What is your remembering strategy? Are you trying ...What is your remembering strategy? Are you trying to recall the materiality of the written words - feeding yourself clues about what ink they were written in, where they were positioned on the page, etc.? Or are you trying to recall the events and moments of inspiration that triggered them? Are you taking yourself back (mentally or physically) to places you know you went to, and asking yourself 'What was going on for me here? What might I have written down?' What are the notebook entries for you, in memory: bits of language or fragments of experience? For that matter, what are the bits of your known, non-lost poems - are they set in language or are they still bits of remembered experience?Charles Fernyhoughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04077012181124807825noreply@blogger.com