Memory Studies
"Just as everything participates in memory, so memory participates in everything:
every last thing. In so doing it draws the world together, remembering
it and endowing it with a connectiveness and a significance it would otherwise
lack or rather without which it would not be what it is or as it is."(Casey, Remembering, 313)
Henri Bergson's Cone of Memory,
Matter and Memory, Chapter 3.
The essence of the general idea . . . is to be unceasingly going backwards and forwards between the plane of action [P] and that of pure memory [AB]. Let us refer once more to the diagram [. . .] At S is the present perception which I have of my body, that is to say, of a certain sensori-motor equilibrium. Over the surface of the base AB are spread, we may say, my recollections in their totality. Within the cone so determined the general idea oscillates continually between the summit S [the now] and the base AB [the then]. In S, it would take the clearly defined form of a bodily attitude or of an uttered word; at AB, it would wear the aspect, no less defined, of the thousand individual images into which its fragile unity would break up
