Comments on: FW Required Reading: Jonathan Baumbach’s YOU or The Invention of Memory http://flavorwire.com/7982/fw-required-reading-jonathan-baumbachs-you-or-the-invention-of-memory Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:02:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: sittingbytheriver http://flavorwire.com/7982/fw-required-reading-jonathan-baumbachs-you-or-the-invention-of-memory/comment-page-1#comment-1793 sittingbytheriver Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:52:41 +0000 http://flavorwire.com/?p=7982#comment-1793 We don't see the world as it is. We see the world as we are. Even the past. We don't see the world as it is. We see the world as we are. Even the past.

]]> By: Angie http://flavorwire.com/7982/fw-required-reading-jonathan-baumbachs-you-or-the-invention-of-memory/comment-page-1#comment-1750 Angie Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:25:32 +0000 http://flavorwire.com/?p=7982#comment-1750 I didn't mean that it was confined to old people. The characters in the novel aren't old. I think "as we age" can mean any age...I simply meant as time passes... I didn't mean that it was confined to old people. The characters in the novel aren't old. I think "as we age" can mean any age…I simply meant as time passes…

]]> By: wix http://flavorwire.com/7982/fw-required-reading-jonathan-baumbachs-you-or-the-invention-of-memory/comment-page-1#comment-1747 wix Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:47:17 +0000 http://flavorwire.com/?p=7982#comment-1747 "The novel made us wonder if as we age we begin to confuse reality with what we wished could have happened, the conversation we wished for, with what we imagined." Do you think this sort of revisionist personal history is confined to old people? Isn't it more likely that we all do it, to varying degrees? I'm not sure that long-ago memories are any more prone to reinterpretation than recent ones... "The novel made us wonder if as we age we begin to confuse reality with what we wished could have happened, the conversation we wished for, with what we imagined."

Do you think this sort of revisionist personal history is confined to old people? Isn't it more likely that we all do it, to varying degrees? I'm not sure that long-ago memories are any more prone to reinterpretation than recent ones…

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