Halfway across the pasture on your beeline to the gap. The unerring feet fast. You look behind you as you could not then and see their trail.

A great swerve. Withershins. Almost as if all at once the heart too heavy. In the end too heavy.

* This is another Mnemonic Unit describing/ imagining the Hearer/ protagonist in both his past and present situation. The 2nd Person Voice "speaks" of/ to him as a man walking through the countryside (a past experience)...

...and as the "one" now "lying on his back in the dark" describing/ imagining this related memory of/ to himself (re-experiencing this past event in the present situation).

Since the protagonist is presently "looking in" on this past event as though from an outside perspective, the present re-experience of this past event is much "clearer" than at the time of actually experiencing it....

...and better/ more clearly defined in the "mind" of the Hearer/ protagonist, who is "see[ing] the scene. As [he] could not at the time."

(xx) Text as Memory: If the proliferation of writing as a socially-shared receptacle for past experience results in the decline of oral literatures, poetry, and dramatic presentations....

...and consequently a decline in the power of memory, the ability of a people to remember well, then the text may be regarded as both a supplement to, and replacement of, human memory.

We regard the late proliferation (20th century) of text-based "interrogations of reality," including phenomenology, the analytical or linguistic philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, post-structuralism, and deconstruction, as a socio-intellectual by-product of an advanced stage...

...of this shift in Western societies from an almost exclusive reliance upon human memory to a shared reliance upon human memory and the written text as memory, or the text as supplement for, and replacement of, human memory and the medium of speech.

As texts proliferate, and memory becomes less necessary, then the existing body of texts, as a record of the human narrative...

...comes to supplement and replace human memory in ever greater degree.

Once the world is saturated by text, the text not only supplements/ replaces, but erases, human memory as a primary function of the human consciousness, and the desire to remember.

The abstract narration of the self/ event by the material text alone becomes, then, an integral component of that consciousness.

At the confluence of our subjective sense of the self as protagonist in the world (space, time, reality), there is the ever-expanding penetration of the linguistic text.

There is nothing outside the text, for the subject's perception of the world is within the text (or by way of thought, language, and mnemonic narration as text).

The subject's perception of the self and its place in the world are comprehended and communicated through the text.

These perceptions, as the base components of our mnemonic narration, are then (re)communicated by us to others, again through a socially shared and textual system of thought, language, and written communication as text.

(41) Bloom of adulthood. Imagine a whiff of that. On your back in the dark you remember. Ah you you remember.

Cloudless. May day. She joins you in the little summerhouse. A rustic hexahedron. Entirely of logs. Both larch and fir.