Friday, March 8, 2019

From the novel "There There"

This is a passage from the exceptional novel There There, by Tommy Orange (Alfred A. Knopf, 2018). The voice is that of one of the novel's characters, Edwin Black:

    Lately I've become a little obsessed with the brain.  With trying to find explanations for everything as it relates to the brain and its parts.  There's almost too much information out there.  The internet is like a brain trying to figure out a brain. I depend on the internet for recall now.  There's no reason to remember when it's always just right there, like the way everyone used to know phone numbers by heart and now can't even remember their own.  Remembering itself is becoming old-fashioned.

https://www.amazon.com/There-novel-Tommy-Orange/dp/0525520376/ref