"What we, or at any rate, I, refer to confidently as a memory—meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a fixative and thereby rescued from oblivion—is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling. Too many conflicting emotional interests are involved for life ever to be wholly acceptable, and possibly it is the work of the storyteller to rearrange things so that they conform to this end. In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw."
WILLIAM MAXWELL
Human memory, and the human mind, is extraordinarily interesting when you think about these topics in certain ways.
Yep.
Yes, I agree with this but there is another kind of moment,,, a non-story, an event in which the action determines the effect, Look a Jackson Pollock's works from 1947 throught 1950. His paintings have no story, no image, few with titles...what they have are figures, color combinations random forms...actions which create the aesthetic affect. The painter gave something of himself in making these paintings.