FUNES, THE MEMORIOUS - BY JORGE LUIS BORGES - ATHENAEUM LIBRARY OF PHILOSOPHY
there are many ways in which forgetting is your friend. think of what would happen if you couldn't.
Luria, A. R. (Aleksandr Romanovich) : The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory
sometimes i think we are primarily forgetting machines, repression devices that enable us to ignore information, avoid it, suppress it. without that, we'd not be able to move.
but we also are grammatical functions. so we like structures. they say memory is how it's structured.
i forgot what i was going to say.