What is impossible to distinguish is what happened to others and the things they tell us about themselves as if they were fictitious or real but remote, the reality of people we don’t know or the reality of the past. Let’s just say that, except in certain extreme cases, one’s own memory still remains quite safe, untouched, you remember what you yourself have seen and heard in a different way to how you remember books or films, but the difference is less marked when it comes to what others have seen and heard and witnessed and known and then told us about. And then, of course, there are the
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