Tag: showing
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There’s a moment in every memoir where time has to bend. I think about this when I read a passage that rushes through years in a paragraph, and I think about it again when I land in a single afternoon that takes up ten pages.
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There’s a moment in every memoir where the writer reaches for the shortcut. Instead of showing us what happened, they tell us what it meant. ‘It was terrifying.’ ‘I felt so alone.’ ‘We were happy.’ These sentences feel true, but they land like a closed door.