In a message dated 10/19/08 5:39:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

>  without a discernible affect or feeling, memories cannot be 
> recalled, that is, recreated.
>

 I would like to say that I have spent the afternoon and evening talking to a
gentleman who   recalled how   in the sixties the   girls would walk to the
dances along the dirt roads around Cleggan and how their spike heels sent up
little puffs of dust   at each step except at the pot holes which they
avoided.
Also how a dear old friend left Ireland (in the twenties)after a daring chase
from the Black and Tans among the moonlit chimney pots   of Cleggan.    There
were two or possibly four affects being recounted-the one now, the one then,
and the ones that we had each assumed the other party had at the time and at
the present. It is visual observation at the time that brought up the
memories(although in the case of the dear old friend it was passed on second
hand in a
whisper   to someone else by the gentleman's father as he himself hid around
the corner of the fireplace). The number of small differences between
parties-himself and myself- were scraped over by ignoring them and by
accepting that
then was then and that then may be used to   explore   and explain the now.
Kate Sullivan


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