OblivionRemembering or forgetting is doing gardeners work, selecting, pruning. Memories are like plants: there are those that need to be quickly eliminated in order to help the others burgeon, transform, flower. For the health of the psyche and the culture, for the individual and the whole society, oblivion is as necessary as memory. One must know how to forget, Marc Aug suggests, not just to live fully in the present but also to comprehend the past. Renowned