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Whatever the cause, my memory is my memory, it does what it does, gathers and curates as it sees fit, and thereβs just as much truth in what I remember and how I remember it as there is in so-called objective facts. Things like chronology and cause-and-effect are often just fables we tell ourselves about the past. The past is never dead. Itβs not even past. When I discovered that quotation not long ago on BrainyQuote.com, I was thunderstruck. I thought, Who the fook is Faulkner? And howβs he related to us Windsors? And so: Balmoral. Closing my eyes, I
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