From: "Charles Gavette" <chaosmosis-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: haunted choices/memory of the future
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 18:18:21 PDT


..."Does the primary articulation ever become haunted in its 
choices....rather than the errors in choice....?" as Braddell asked 
earlier on this list, opening onto the question of melancholic 
inflection, or called something else, the dread that prevents movement, 
and its possible psychic blindness. On p.137 of Matter and Memory, 
Bergson says, "...The immediate future, on the contrary, consists in an 
impending action, in an energy not yet spent. The unperceived part of 
the universe, big with promises and threats, has then for us a reality 
which the actually unperceived periods of our past existence cannot and 
should not possess.....The same instinct, in virtue of which we open out 
space indefinitely before us, prompts us to shut off time behind us as 
it flows."...P.143.."...and in truth, every perception is already 
memory. Practically we perceive only the past, the pure present being 
the invisible progress of the past gnawing into the future.".....p. 
147..."The extraordinary development of spontaneous memory in most 
children is due to the fact that they have not yet persuaded their 
memory to remain bound up with their conduct. They usually follow the 
impression of the moment, and as with them action does not bow to the 
suggestions of memory, so neither are their recollections limited to the 
necessities of action. They seem to retain
with greater facility only because they remember with less discernment. 
The apparent diminution of memory, as intellect develops, is then due to 
the growing organization of recollections with acts. Thus the conscious 
memory loses in range what it gains in force of penetration: it had at 
first the facility of the memory of dreams, but then it was actually 
dreaming." I have yet to find Bergson's reference to memory of the 
future. Probably was imagination.

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