IVIV book review: They really are out to get you by Michael Wood

[rich]

"What we lost when we lost the addled 60s, this novel is saying to us,
is the illumination that may strike the truly confused, like Doc's
cousin, who says he gets the strange feeling he used to live in the
San Joaquin Valley. Doc points out to him that he did live there, but
that's not what his cousin means. "No, like in another life, man." To
feel you had another life in the place whereyou have lived your actual
life is to cherish the survival of even an imaginary past, and it
proves that the living too, and perhaps especially theliving, can
haunt places with real-world addresses."
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I've been visiting some of my places of my childhood on long island
the past few yrs--"survival of imaginary past"--is he saying all
memory is imaginary?--revisiting the place of youth sure feels like
being haunted (everything is familiar and very strange) for sure but
not all of that memory is imaginary. i'm confused
The other question is why is this sentiment exclusive to the 60s?

rich

On 9/2/09, Doug Millison <dougmillison at comcast.net> wrote:
> http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25980068-25132,00.html
>
> They really are out to get you
> Michael Wood | September 02, 2009
>
> hat's the best one I've read yet.  Thanks, Heikki.
>