“Beyond the Pages: Lidia Yuknavitch Reveals the Hidden Depths of ‘Reading the Waves'”
Toni Morrison’s quote about water having perfect memory fucked me up. HA. Seriously. Because water is such a life force for me, so much the central metaphor as well as literal realm within which I am most alive, it felt both beautiful and terrible to think of water having perfect memory. Also how does that work! Water moves. It is fluid. Or it freezes, or evaporates — shapeshifts. Does that mean memory does those things too? I think that it does. But it is also a mind-blowing concept if one sits with the idea in meditation…all water has perfect memory…gah! I’m just a puny human! How do I get my mind to move through that idea without panic? I have to let go of my previous definitions and ideas about what memory is and is not. Plus I’d much rather sit around meditating on Toni Morrison’s singular lyric lines than, say, Wittgenstein. Yeah yeah I know. Big brain. Whatever.
