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Remembering is not the re-excitation of innumerable fixed, lifeless and fragmentary traces. It is an imaginative reconstruction.
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The quote says that remembering is not like replaying countless exact pieces stored away. It is an imaginative reconstruction: the past is put together again as a whole. Memory therefore involves actively forming a version of what happened, rather than simply recovering fixed, lifeless fragments unchanged.
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