Friday, March 23, 2012

Travelers

Chinua Achebe’s profound revulsion to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness gave birth to his short critique titled An Image of Africa; in which Achebe examines the hidden breakdown acclaimed author(s), including Conrad, mistake as prestige works of literature despite the underlying tones of apparent racism. In his short critique Achebe is quoted saying: 
Indeed, travelers can be blind. 

This got me wondering, are we (as travelers of our own memories) blind to the capacity and complexity of our experiences? When we fail to think memorable thoughts are we subjecting our memories to blind coherence? As abstract memory champions of our own musyrooms we must strive to take off the blindfold that passively dismiss knowledge and reclaim our eyeglasses. Maintaining our vision, our memorable thoughts, will acknowledge the first action of reclamation--In every sense returning to an original state of nature: the complete retention of memory.    

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