![]() ![]() ![]() Only then will he be truly purified and the memories of his good deeds restored to him.īefore we can truly remember, according to Dante, we must forget.Ī view of the ''block-face'' at the level of the occipital lobes with the very shrunk cerebellum, foreground, of Henry G. To be truly cleansed of his memories, however, Dante must also drink from the river of oblivion. It was essential to our character and therefore a powerful theme in both myth and literature.Īt the end of book two of The Divine Comedy, with Paradise nearly in reach, Dante is dipped into the River Lethe, where the sins of the self are washed away in the waters of forgetfulness. It wasn't a tool or a byproduct of being human. Before iPhones and thumb drives, before Google Docs and gigabytes of RAM, memory was more art than artefact. ![]()
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