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Frank-Jaspers — Memory is a Mad Editor
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Published: 2016-08-15 07:52:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 557; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 0
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Memory is a mad editor,

Cut-up and disordered;

In the reel to reel of old film 

Crackling with intertitles 

I 

Piece together 

Fragments of action 


To create 

What’s real.



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Comments: 15

slurbol [2016-10-27 01:26:33 +0000 UTC]

Brilliant!

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Frank-Jaspers In reply to slurbol [2016-10-31 05:37:57 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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DoomWinter [2016-08-20 02:22:20 +0000 UTC]

I like this new form of poetry! Partly because it reminds me of the Haiku, but also because of the challenge that comes with it... and the resulting brilliance. ^w^

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Frank-Jaspers In reply to DoomWinter [2016-08-22 07:26:16 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! Yeah, it's a fun, versatile little form. 

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LindArtz [2016-08-19 15:17:51 +0000 UTC]

ha yes, and lets not forget when 'memory starts to fail us; that is to say, gets warped'.  Oh the chaos that can ensue!      Another very nice work from one of the most skilled writers on DA. !

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Frank-Jaspers In reply to LindArtz [2016-08-22 07:27:06 +0000 UTC]

Oh yes. It is especially warped with certain older people,
Parents, for example!

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LindArtz In reply to Frank-Jaspers [2016-08-23 05:28:04 +0000 UTC]

LOL They can straight out bullshit. I mean: "You were too young to remember", anyway. ^^

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Frank-Jaspers In reply to LindArtz [2016-08-23 05:44:34 +0000 UTC]

Ugh ... parents. 
Expert bullshitters. 

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AtriaClara [2016-08-18 07:46:23 +0000 UTC]

Really makes you think...

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Frank-Jaspers In reply to AtriaClara [2016-08-18 20:48:09 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad you like it.

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oviedomedina [2016-08-17 01:36:11 +0000 UTC]

So very true.

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Frank-Jaspers In reply to oviedomedina [2016-08-17 01:37:48 +0000 UTC]

Perhaps both a good thing and a bad thing?

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oviedomedina In reply to Frank-Jaspers [2016-08-17 01:40:20 +0000 UTC]

Perhaps.

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RoryPond86 [2016-08-16 16:13:15 +0000 UTC]

Mad Editor is such a fitting description for what our brain does sometimes (most of the times?).
I read it and sat here for quite some time just thinking about memory. Thanks a lot.

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Frank-Jaspers In reply to RoryPond86 [2016-08-17 00:38:40 +0000 UTC]

It is something to seriously think about, given how fragile human memory is.
Just what is real and what isn't? How much of the past happened as we think it happened? How much of our experience of the world constructed in our heads?

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