Memory, the Monster

Are you a friend or foe to memory or remembering?

Today it dawned on me that memory, or the act of remembering, can be its own sort of monster, depending on the time of day or year or mood it’s conjured.

I had just finished the chapter on memory in The Book of Alchemy (our January Egalitarian Book Club pick) a little bit ago, you see, and was thoroughly disappointed by the way it had made me feel sort o…