In our decrepitude, we remember but one word in ten thousand.
So runs an entry in a commonplace book that I began keeping in the early 1990s, as a nondecrepit twentysomething. The mere act of transcription has brought this sentence to mind countless times in…
Commonplace books and the illusions of memory
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