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A Journal of the Performing Arts
Volume 22, 2017 - Issue 1: On Libraries
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My Life as a Book

Mette Edvardsen
Pages 51-54 | Published online: 16 Mar 2017
 
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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

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