Status Updates From In Memory of Memory

'the present is so certain that it owns the past, just as once 'both th'Indias' were owned. the present knows as much about the past, as Donne did 'th'India', and barely notices the ghosts that float back and forth, ignoring state boundaries.'

'only trauma makes individuals - singly and unambiguously us - from the mass product. and yes, finally, the way in which i am the little boy, the product of mass manufacturing and also of the collective catastrophe of the last century, the survivor and unwitting beneficiary, here by some miracle.'