Do you remember...

 

Dear Friends, 

It's Monday, and Memorial Day in the United States. 

Talking about memory is talking about the past, the present and the future. 

I don't want to talk about the future, there is enough about it everywhere: new world, new age, new intentionality, new beginning, new normal, brand new, new New-York, new futures, and even the old Roosevelt's new deal. 

Same for the present, it's everywhere, I will spare you the uncertain, unstable, unprecedented usual newsletters vocabulary.

No other choice than talking about the past, the one (still) in everyone's memory.

And who's better than Georges Perec* (and some friends) to inspire me:

  1. I remember licking the phone screen to clean it.

  2. I remember having excuses to not attend an event.

  3. I remember eating a birthday cake right after someone blew the candles. 

  4. I remember going to the office.

  5. I remember resting my head on a pole in the subway on my way back home.

  6. I remember Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and the other days of the week.

  7. I remember that the first rows at the Met Opera were the most expensive seats.

  8. I remember dinners with friends at Katz on Saturday night. 

  9. I remember the Cock and the bouncer loudly warning "Watch your wallet".

  10. I remember Steven and William's endless hugs.

  11. I remember French kissing with strangers.

  12. I remember, I remember, I remember...


Coronarely yours,

Lucien Zayan
Director


*Georges Perec (1936-1982) was a French novelist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. Many of his works deal with absence, loss, and identity, often through word play. Perec's "Je me souviens" was inspired by Joe Brainard's "I Remember"


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