Memory

Question 1

Poor Things, Alasdair Gray, 1992

Answer 1

“They are told she is Bella Baxter, a distant niece whose parents died in a South American railway accident, a disaster where she sustained a concussion causing total amnesia” Godwin

Question 2

Barthes, From Work to Text, 1964

Answer 2

“the Text is experienced only in activity, in a production. It follows that the text cannot stop (for example, at a library shelf); its constitutive moment is traversal”

Question 3

Loitering with Intent, Muriel Spark, 1981

Answer 3

“thinking how I could go about writing ‘Warrender Chase’ all over again. But I knew I couldn’t. Something spontaneous had gone forever”

Question 4

Poor Things 2

Answer 4

“That woman is no daughter of Blaydon Hattersley”

Question 5

Foucalt, What is an Author, 1969

Answer 5

“the author does not precede the work, he is a certain functional principle by which, in our culture, one limits, excludes, and chooses”

Question 6

Loitering 2

Answer 6

“my Warrender Chase; my foolscap pages with the first chapters I had once torn up and stuck together; my ‘Warrender Chase’, mine. I hugged it. I kissed it.”