Almanac: Max Beerbohm on the memories of old people
"Memory is a great artist, we are told; she selects and rejects and shapes and so on. No doubt. Elderly persons would be utterly intolerable if they remembered everything. Everything, nevertheless, is just what they themselves would like to remember, and just what they would like to tell to everybody." Max Beerbohm, “No. 2, The […]