Calvino on Memory
“What Ulysses saves from the power of the lotus, from Circe’s drugs, and from the Siren’s song, is not just the past or the future. Memory truly counts–for an individual, a society, a culture–only if it holds together the imprint of the past and the plan for the future, if it allows one to do things without forgetting what one wanted to do, and to become without ceasing to be, to be without ceasing to become.”
Italo Calvino (Corriere della serra, 10 August 1975)
