Deadpan Sincerity » Memory http://blog.deadpansincerity.com a weblog by david miller Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:03:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 quote: History &/or Memory http://blog.deadpansincerity.com/2008/12/quote-history-or-memory/ http://blog.deadpansincerity.com/2008/12/quote-history-or-memory/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:07:31 +0000 david miller http://blog.deadpansincerity.com/?p=168 I will not make this needlessly long:

The explosive pertinence of a remembered detail may challenge repressive or merely complacent systems of prescriptive memory or history; memory like the body, may speak in a language that reasoned inquiry will not hear.

Randolph Starn & Natalie Zemon Davis

N.B. also, two fantastic names.

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