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Today's quote:

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

These pages are all about memories, so it's perhaps appropriate to have some idle thoughts on memory


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Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago!" has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday", wrote Jerome K. Jerome in his book "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow". I can't remember when I started looking back to the good old days, but it must have been when I had found Eve and settled down.

Ah, memory, the pleasure and the pain of it! Jerome's last essay in this delightful little book is entitled "On Memory", and he begins it by remembering the first poem he learned. Memory is not always reliable and much of the things we should or would like to remember are forgotten. Men will always want to return back in time but that is impossible and so we must try to enjoy the life we have.

 

For "Memory" in Jerome K. Jerome's "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow", click here

 

Perhaps listening to the reading of this essay, or reading it, or listening while reading along, will help you do just that. Happy memories!


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P.S. Having second thoughts? Read "Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow".