I remember / je me souviens
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For those limbic bursts of nostalgia, invented by Proust, miniaturized by Nicholson Baker, and freeze-dried by Joe Brainard in his I remember and by Georges Perec in his Je me souviens.

But there are no fractions, the world is an integer
Like us, and like us it can neither stand wholly apart nor disappear.
When one is young it seems like a very strange and safe place,
But now that I have changed it feels merely odd, cold
And full of interest.
          --John Ashbery, "A Wave"

Sometimes I sense that to put real confidence in my memory I have to get to the end of all rememberings. That seems to say that I forego remembering. And now that strikes me as an accurate description of what it is to have confidence in one's memory.
          --Stanley Cavell, The Claim of Reason


Sunday, March 14, 2010
I remember posting on Peter Graves early on in this blog,
here and here. I remember that George Peppard on the A-Team was capitalizing on Graves's platinum gray charisma


posted by William 10:57 PM
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Comments:
The original leader, pre-Jim Phelps (Peter Graves), of the Impossible Missions force was Dan Briggs, played by Steven Hill.
 

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