“Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.”
Italo Calvino book Invisible Cities
Source: Invisible Cities
“Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years.”
"Literary bias on the slippery slope", p. 249
Bully for Brontosaurus (1991)
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Can a Doctor Be a Humanist? (1984).
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It is easy, and tempting, to choose the god of Science. Now I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it is always twisting and turning, and sometimes shedding its skin, like the serpent that is its symbol. It is a powerful god indeed but it is what the students of ancient gods called a shape-shifter, and sometimes a trickster.
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