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Memory power: Never lament lack of notes for writing assignments


With more than a few writing assignments, I’ve either been unable to take notes (because I didn’t have pen and paper or a computer or other note-taking device), prohibited from taking notes, lost my notes or my notes were otherwise rendered worthless.

But for years, I’ve taken the very attitude that David Lynch espouses in his responses to a couple of questions from Deborah Solomon in today’s New York Times Magazine:

I hear you’re getting married again. 
In February. I’m marrying a girl named Emily Stofle.

Is she an actress? Was she in any of your films? 
She was just in one, “Inland Empire.”

You’ve been married three times before? 
Yeah, it’s real great.

Why would someone who feels so generally blissed out marry so many times? 
Well, we live in the field of relativity. Things change.

Do you plan to film your wedding? 
No. It’s a hassle. So many things these days are made to look at later. Why not just have the experience and remember it?

Because most people have the experience and forget it. 
Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:53 pm November 23rd, 2008 in Writing 

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