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Article: A LETTER FROM KAKANIA.(Iain Bamforth, personal narrative)
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- Quadrant
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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DOES MEMORY have a colour? If it does, it must lie somewhere in the palette between sepia and mahogany. A beautiful word that latter, even if I hear it these days as the spaced-out syllables of Brecht's decadent city, Mahagonny. Ma-ha-gon-ny. In any case redolent of stiff-backed Victorian furniture, daguerreotypes, havanas, Worcestershire sauce, cocoa and the meat extract Nietzsche used to he partial to. The thick brown gravy of memory. Europe's edible mud.
And the more I look around, the more I seem to notice official recognition of my observation. Memory is brown. Drive down the super-efficient tollways after the Channel Tunnel, those long concrete snakes cut ...
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