The
Imaginary Museum of Atlantis
Jack
Ross
How do you recover
your past if you have retrograde amnesia? -- Write down, blindly,
everything that comes into your head, check it back for clues? How
do you hold onto the present if you have retrograde amnesia? List
the things that strike you link them up to preserve your train of
thought
If you forgot everything
you did as soon as youıd finished it, itıd be almost impossible to
write a book. Of course you could resort to automatic writing, recording
things at random, checking them back for clues.
Alternatively, you
could keep a scrapbook of pictures and quotations, indexing and annotating
them to preserve the associations you -- once -- saw between them.
What if you chose
to do both? Or, rather, if you happened to open your notebook one
way, it told you to do the first. If you opened it the other way,
it told you to do the second. All the things you really wanted to
say would be hidden under a mask of random words. You and the reader
would be, to all intents and purposes, equal digging into the mask
of a culture to uncover the repressed, the collective memories concealed
beneath.
-- Jack Ross writing on
the mediascape, the romance, the detective story and the history
lesson that make up the amazing The Imaginary Museum of Atlantis.
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