Our origins are made of personal and acquired memory. There are many types of memory: historical, emotional, scholastic, atavistic, pictorial, photographic, mythical, filmic, oneiric, and many others. Sometimes we remember things or images stolen or borrowed from a variety of sources because memory can cheat. It can modify or change the contours of a face, it can substitute or juxtapose details and information according to how we want to represent experience. Memory can reinvent the past while remaining the only link to History.
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