Abstract
What happens when a group of people get together in order to memorise books? A story of remembering and forgetting, intimate reading sessions for library visitors and rewriting from memory.
Notes
1 This essay was published in Norwegian in KRITIKER – a Nordic periodical for literature (January 2016). The English translation is by Neil Howard.
2 ‘Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine’ is a quotation from Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays by Alexander Smith (1863), it appears unreferenced in Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury 1991: 37). For more information about the project see www.timehasfallenasleepintheafternoonsunshine.be