Article August 13, 1979 Issue

The past has no hold

FEROL AUSTEN

"'The horror of that moment,' the King went on, 'I shall never, never forget!'

" 'You will, though,' the Queen said, 'if you don't make a memorandum of it.' "

This tickling bit of dialogue from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass gives a hint of how easy it would really be for us to let go of a painful experience or an unhappy past simply by not constantly baiting ourselves with mental memoranda about it.

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