Quarta Cruzada

Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix , Entrada dos Cruzados em Constantinopla. 1840.

We do not remember

He wrote me: I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember, we rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?

Excerto e Still de Sans Soleil ,  Chris Marker, 1983