![]() ![]() They finally meet, and Werner gets Marie Laure to safety. ![]() Eventually, during the siege of Saint-Malo, Marie Laure uses her great-uncle’s old radio equipment to ask for help, which Werner, who has been forced into service for the Nazis, hears. As the Nazis take Paris, Marie Laure escapes with her father to Saint-Malo, and comes to live with her great-uncle. We come to find out that this French broadcaster is Marie Laure’s great-uncle Etienne, who lives in the small city of Saint-Malo. I’m going to skip over most of the book, though I highly recommend reading it. Each broadcast ends with Claude Debussy’s “Clair de Lune”. It is Werner’s favorite thing in the world. The broadcast it connects to is of a French man discussing science, history, music, and the world in general on a program geared toward children. Werner is an electrical engineering prodigy, and as a child he is able to connect to a radio broadcast emanating from France by fixing up a radio he finds one day. Set just before and during World War II, it follows two children, Marie Laure from France and Werner Pfennig from Germany. That said, I think I have some idea of how I will remember my experience during the pandemic, and it has to do with a book I read way back in July.Īll the Light We Cannot See is a 2014 novel by Anthony Doerr. We are all sentient flesh-and-blood ships of Theseus, and paradoxically, the way that we remember something is often colored by events that have nothing to do with each other, sometimes years apart. So, again, how will you remember your time during the COVID-19 pandemic?īecause personal memory is fluid, it’s nigh impossible to know how one’s memory will change as time passes. One of the greatest tragedies of death is that we lose all that person’s personal memory-their experiences and thoughts as only they could understand them. Certainly images of police brutality, images of collective action against said brutality, images of doctors and nurses, images of grief these will be remembered by everyone.īut our own personal memories can be quite distinct from the collective memory. I think that there are images that will be seared into our minds forever that occurred during this pandemic and resultant social isolation, which everyone else will remember. ![]() How will you remember your time during the COVID-19 pandemic? I suppose I should clarify a bit, what I mean to ask is how is your memory of your time during the COVID-19 pandemic will differ from the collective memory of the COVID-19 pandemic. ![]()
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