“… There is a goddess of Memory, Mnemosyne; but none of Forgetting. Yet there should be, as they are twin sisters, twin powers, and walk on either side of us, disputing for sovereignty over us and who we are, all the way until death.”

–- Richard Holmes  in “A Meander through Memory and Forgetting” (an essay off: Memory: An Anthology/ Wood Harriet Harvey, Byatt AS / Chatto & Windus, 2008/

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