Memory, so complete and cle... by Harold Brodkey, an American Author

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“Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.”

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Name: Harold Brodkey

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Oct 25, 1930

Date of Death: Jan 26, 1996

Profession: Author

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God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction.

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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

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Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.

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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.

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