Final Post

          Overall, this was a pretty easy read, the story was not all that confusing and the idea presented was nowhere near as complicated as in the underground man. An interesting point that I found throughout the reading was the fact that you might be able to remember a massive amount of detail surrounding certain events, but as time wares on, that detail crumbles until you are left with a single fragment, a single shimmering of an idea that represents an entire section of your life. Like an egg being cracked in a pan, brief snippets of life. This fact is extremely gloomy, but it is undeniably true. Your life as you know it will eventually crumble under the never ending flow of time, eventually; all your experiences and memories will disappear. But this can be looked at with a lighter perspective. The main reasons your memories and experiences disappear are usually because you are filling the void with a hopefully equally meaningful memory or experience. But this presents a problem when trying to write the history of something, all that remains are not exactly accurate representations of what was, they are merely the fragments of memory that the survivors decided to keep. And as this author acknowledges, it is those memories that are dedicated to remembering that are the ones that are most beneficial to your viewpoint. When you try to remember something, you often do so in such a way that the memories support your argument, fulfill your expectation, or validate your point. History is no different, it is written by those who can remember the victories, who existed during the triumphs, and the most unbiased point of view is that which is separated from the center of the memory, those points that are furthest from either side have a memory that is closest to the truth, seeing as they have no way to be biased towards one faction or the other. There is some history where exact events were written down, and then there is the history that is remembered, but the history in between is the history most subject to bias. The historian will be much more compelled to use this gap to match the documentation to support the memories and affirm themselves, even thought that gap will never be able to be bridged by any human, seeing as every person has even a minor predilection towards a certain preference. Yet I feel that the only constant, as this author seems to be commenting on, is time, it flows forwards destroying memories and causing change, and there will never be a force to stop time, no matter how much one tries to stop times erosion of the mind.