Memory

That's crazy.

Memory-wise, was I at Aunt Barb's? I remember I was chewing Mentos because I was like crack cocaine while I was on the road.

Yeah, that sounds right.

I think

Uh, Miranda Cosgrove is a scene stealer as, uh, Summer Hathaway in the film, and she can sing.

So she took about a 45-minute bad singing lesson to sing horrible for the song Memory when Jack Black's character, uh, was-

[laughs]

... looking for backup singers.

The suggestion of it was not mental but visual, the actual idiots.

It was after an interval of long groping amongst vague impulses and hesitations which ended in the production of The Nigger that I turned to my third short story in the order of time, the first in this volume, Corraine, A Memory.

Reading it after many years, Corraine produced on me the effect of something seen through a pair of glasses from a rather advantageous position.

In that story I had not gone back to the archipelago, I had only turned for another look at it.

J.C. End of author's note.

Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad.

Corraine, A Memory.

This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.

The suggestion of it was not mental but visual, the actual idiots.

It was after an interval of long groping amongst vague impulses and hesitations which ended in the production of The Nigger that I turned to my third short story in the order of time, the first in this volume, Corraine, A Memory.

Reading it after many years, Corraine produced on me the effect of something seen through a pair of glasses from a rather advantageous position.

In that story I had not gone back to the archipelago, I had only turned for another look at it.

J.C. End of author's note.

Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad.

Corraine, A Memory.

This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.

and how much they have a need in many ways, all these institutions and international laws to still honor with a lot of dignity their lost ones, the ones they loved and they lost.

So when I was at the General Cemetery in Santiago, I talked a bit about this in the book, how I saw a man cleaning um a plaque and putting some flowers and you know there were flowers everywhere and even in the most horrible sites of memory um that i've been to in in that trip um but at the same time there was so much love and so much dignity um in the way in which um Memory was being kept alive.

So, yes, I think it was that tension between how people remember and the sort of institutions that we also need to put on record.

But that tension is there.

I don't believe it, or it's hard to believe that Ron Patton is gone, but...

Anyway, there's a great write-up on ground0plus.com in memory of Ron Patton, the heart behind Ground Zero.

Just real quick, my background with Ron and with Clyde.

I met both of them at...

Yep.

Always on projects.

Well, in memory of Ron Patton, Clyde, thank you for spending a few minutes with us.

Do you have anything else you want to share with the audience about Ron or

involving tales of labyrinths and spies, deserts and lost civilizations, knife fights and astral journeys, and, as is the case this time, astounding feats that would impress Hitchcock's Mr.

Memory himself, more of that guy presently.

So this time we're playing with the story called Funes the Memorious.

It's sometimes called that and it's sometimes called Funes His Memory.

Hard to remember which is the real one.

It is the tale of a man suffering from total recall.

And then in his later works and poetry, there seems to be more of a movement towards exploring what blindness is and can be for the individual, what it might also mean for our society if we were to embrace blindness more thoroughly.

And so to tell the story quickly for all those who haven't read it, this is Funes the Memorious, but this is how we, each three of us, understand what this story is about.