Koven Smith quoted In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova
With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment …
Memory is handed down, history is written down; memory is concerned with justice, history with preciseness; memory moralizes, history tallies and corrects; memory is personal, history dreams of objectivity; memory is based not on knowledge, but on experience: compassion with, sympathy for a desperate pain demanding immediate involvement. At the same time the landscape of memory is strewn with projections, fantasies, and misrepresentations — the ghosts of today, with their faces turned to the past.
— In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, Sasha Dugdale (19%)