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Memoryscapes (semi-fictional territories)

Gustave Caillebotte Sketches  that explore different semi-fictionalized narratives delving into various modes of memory.  The narratives explore the nuanced boundary between memory and imagination, navigating through trauma before culminating in memory and personal identity. 1. Remembering and imagining The question of how to distinguish between remembering and imagining is importantly ambiguous. On the one hand, we sometimes remember but do so in a way that is in some sense inadequate; in such cases, we naturally say that we are “only imagining”.  The question can thus be taken to concern the distinction between cases in which the subject remembers successfully and cases in which he remembers  unsuccessfully .  Excerpt  from Memory /  Remembering and imagining ,  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy .    "Damned nonsense," he muttered to himself and pulled out a band with small brown beads that he began to finger.    "Excuse me?" asked the man next to him.    "