The the word “text” comes from the Latin verb texere. The word “text” is a thread stretches back into Rome, and on further back to where our collective memory fails. Whenever we speak we knit distant, ancient places into ordinariness, and that is miraculous. We don’t need invisible forces to account for collective being.

The words around memory are beautiful if you look at them closely. “Remember”, “Recollect”, “Recall”. The Greek word “anamnesis”, to unforget, is an interesting word to think about. I like to think of unforgetting as reordering reality according to its experiential proximity, being faithful to what is, and to the truth of what is closest and what is further out. Forgetting is allowing distant derivations to conceal what is nearest and most immediate. Explanation is often forgetting.

Sometimes we think in order to forget, but sometimes we think in order to unforget. The test: when you are finished, can you stop thinking it and simply see it?