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poliphilo ([personal profile] poliphilo) wrote2006-09-19 10:58 am
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A Correction

I said my cousin died 20 years ago.

My sister demurred, so I did some research and find it was only 6. I was out by 14 years. Sheesh!

I have a mental image of her funeral. At the time of writing yesterday's post I truly believed I was there. But I wasn't.

In the past when I've come across cases of people mis-remembering things I've always assumed they had an agenda and were deliberately lying. Either that or they were cracked.

I shall be more charitable in future.

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[identity profile] idahoswede.livejournal.com 2006-09-19 10:45 am (UTC)(link)
Either that, or it's you that's cracked, did you think about that?

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2006-09-19 11:31 am (UTC)(link)
I did.

It would explain a lot...

[identity profile] idahoswede.livejournal.com 2006-09-19 12:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I find I'm using it more frequently myself to explain away some of my little foibles.

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2006-09-19 12:45 pm (UTC)(link)
People have been telling me recently that I'm eccentric. I take it as a compliment.

[identity profile] idahoswede.livejournal.com 2006-09-19 01:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Tell them it's a great British tradition. Nobody does eccentrics as well as the British.

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2006-09-19 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess I'm actually fulfilling an ambition.

[identity profile] catvalente.livejournal.com 2006-09-19 12:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Do nothing else today until you have found a copy of The Motion of Light on Water. Besides being breathtaking, it talks incessantly about this very thing.

[identity profile] catvalente.livejournal.com 2006-09-19 02:48 pm (UTC)(link)
(Samuel R. Delany, btw) Don't mean to be adamant, it's just that he talks about precisely what you are taling about wrt the death of his father.

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2006-09-19 03:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Delany's new to me. He sounds really interesting. Maybe I'll make him my project for this autumn.

[identity profile] catvalente.livejournal.com 2006-09-19 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Try Dhalgren. Mwa ha ha.

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2006-09-19 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I just ordered a copy from Amazon.

Motion of Light will have to wait until I can locate a copy that costs less than £50....

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2006-09-19 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Brilliant.

Thanks.

[identity profile] besideserato.livejournal.com 2006-09-19 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I hate it when that happens!
Every day a lesson, though!

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2006-09-20 09:56 am (UTC)(link)
The unreliability of memory.

A good thing to know about.

[identity profile] besideserato.livejournal.com 2006-09-20 01:08 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL!
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