January 04, 2012

Slowness

Our period is obsessed by the desire to forget, and it is to fulfill that desire that it gives over to the demon of speed; it picks up the pace to show us that it no longer wishes to be remembered; that it is tired of itself, sick of itself; that it wants to blow out the tiny trembling flame of memory.
                                                                                                                                              
-- Milan Kundera



2 comments:

Atkuynas said...

I'm going to be stealing this, Tilpu. How does the man manage to write such things?!! They ring true EVERY single time.

Tilpu said...

I have my own problems with Kundera. But I still quote him on my blog. Maybe you'd like to read the Book of Laughter and Forgetting.