Type

Text

Type

Thesis

Advisor

Advisors: Rosenblatt, Roger; Marx, Patricia; Jones, Radhika

Date

2017-12-01

Keywords

Creative writing

Department

Department of Creative Writing and Literature | Thesis

Language

en

Source

This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.

Identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/11401/78316

Publisher

The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.

Format

application/pdf

Abstract

We do not live linear lives. Time tenses are tidy titles we use to order that which isn't. In remembering—and even in the now—very little is sequential and even less is absolute: Scientists say the present is 80 milliseconds in the past, which means we are always in the future. As a child imaging my grown up life, I never saw this far ahead. Confounding time, coupled with too many out of order deaths, left me addled. But then, allowing my memories to place themselves instead of being forced by my need for order, a comforting cohesion emerged. This memoir is a journey through "aha!" moments of synchronicity that have given form to the walking shadows of my life. | 199 pages

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