{ Monday, October 20, 2003 }
Lydia Davis: I can remember a day when the teacher read aloud my story and also a story by a classmate. I loved her story. I wasn't so fond of mine. So I can say her story was a big influence on me, the first thing that I really remember liking. You know the book Iron and Silk where the English teacher asks a class of Chinese students to describe their most memorable experience? One of the students hesitates and hesitates and finally says that his most memorable experience was when his wife went to Beijing and ate duck there. He didn’t go. She went, but that was his most memorable experience.
From an Interview with Lydia Davis. I'd read about the lovely wife-goes-to-Beijing anecdote before, but it gets me every time.
LINK | 4:59 PM | TB
I think it is an unbelievably beautiful anecdote.
Oscar Wilde said that music gives us memories of things we've never done, of experiences we've never had. All of human experience is like that. There are stories that people have told me that are more vivid in memory than my own experience. It is why I read, listen to music, watch movies. To escape from the solitude of the self and live what others have lived.
It's an ode to the Inner Life.
Caterina | October 20, 2003 8:05 PMMemory is a strange mansion. We choose certain well worn halls, while boarding off others. We hear them at night and call them ghosts, when they are simply our own forgotten rememberances.
Remember the scene in Citizen Kane where the accountant remembers a woman he saw getting on the ferry - it had been forty years but he still thought of her at least once a week. Memory is like that. I think everyone has a "women in the white sweater" walking the halls of their memory. Or a wife eating duck in Beijing.
As for Iron & Silk its a great movie and probably one of the only genuinely accurate martial arts films out there. I haven't read it (or if I have - I have forgotten) but I enjoyed his book Laughing Sutra.
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{ Post a comment }
Was the wife-goes-to-Beijing anecdote intended to be lovely, or sad?
L.
Lamar | October 20, 2003 5:54 PM