Our memories pop up and dissolve with mysterious timing. Like a book, once immersed in memory, we enter another world that tugs at our heartstrings and stimulates our senses. Memory, even more profoundly, is the foundation of our identity. Lose the ability to access long-term memory, and you lose who you are. Lose your ability to create short-term memories and you lose your ability to survive independently.
Given the importance of memory, you would think human beings should have evolved with a most disciplined and reliable memory system. However, we sometimes remember things—false memories that are pure fiction—that didn’t even happen!
If memory was a place, perhaps it would be a library. In “(L)ibrarian of memory,” Skyler shows what an odd place memory would be and surely a most curious librarian would be on staff to run things according to personal whims.
