History
Memory
Events stand in an order, and dates are measures laid on it. A claim about who wrote what is checked against that order.
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In the register of a disputation, Marshall McLuhan presiding · October 2026
Whether the Cloud Makes Many Worlds
The dead gather in a Toronto hall to dispute whether the digital cloud has made of us many worlds. Leibniz, Kant, Socrates and Elijah say it has. McLuhan determines that it has made no world: the table between us is hidden, the bonds beneath it never cut, and the Light that pitched his tent is not in the wind, the earthquake or the fire. With a dance track for Strudel, built from its end.
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In the register of St Jerome · October 2026
Half of Nothing
Not Caesar but Herod Antipas: the tetrarch who built his capital on a graveyard, took his brother’s wife, feared one man in camel hair, and had him beheaded in the middle of a party rather than be seen taking back a boast. The pattern of the petty ruler, the nation that prefers the fox in the palace to the voice in the wasteland, and the reckoning that follows.
Also touching Memory
- What Is to Be Done? filed under The City
- The Senate at Capri filed under The City
In The Benedict Year, a homeschool curriculum that walks this map, Memory is Unit 5, weeks 13–15.