Old Stories

Posted on February 12, 2016 by John Swinburn

Skimming old stories I wrote, and even ones I started and abandoned, is a little like sorting through old photos. Photos are two dimensional triggers that may, if given enough attention, draw memories out of the tangled gauze of dim recollections. But stories are laden with emotional meat on the bones; they paint full-scale portraits of experience the way photos don’t. I suppose photographs evoke memories, while stories preserve them.

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2 Responses to Old Stories

  1. John Swinburn says:
    February 12, 2016 at 9:22 am

    Dickens’ assessment of art was, ultimately, wrong-headed. Am I right? So, too, may be my relegation of photographs to categorization as two-dimensional triggers. Your comments always cause me to think and, in many cases (like this one), to do my research in an attempt to understand them! I truly appreciate that, my friend. I really do.

  2. jserolf says:
    February 12, 2016 at 7:56 am

    There’s always scraps …. old lamps for new!

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