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1 " Finally, in Bosnia I forgot my own name. That’s an excellent basis for starting this course, I thought. Just as the thought of you is an excellent basis for a start. So as not to forget your name as well, I had to keep writing it down on water. On the Sava River.I don’t know if you know that forests migrate? "
― Milorad Pavić , Кутија за писање
2 " Now I had to acquire the skill of how to forget things the easiest and the fastest. Dreams are forgotten as soon as you pass through the nearest door. What remains is only the frame. But how to forget the language you dream in and grew up with? "
3 " One should have in mind that forgetting is a particularly important thing in life. And a great, mysterious art. Memories return to a person in cycles. Each decade of memories reappears in the sky of remembrance after it has passed like a comet through its own section of a universe. So also does forgetting run in cycles. Whenever you forget something it means that someone from the other side is calling out to you. Someone from the other world is sending you a sign that he wants to communicate with you. When you remember the forgotten thing, the message is there! But be aware that the thing you forgot is always slightly changed when you finally recall it; the recollection is always slightly different from what escaped your memory… And in that difference lies the message. "
4 " Свака ствар да би се једном чула, мора се двапут казати "
5 " As I told you, I have twice in my life forgotten English, and twice resurrected it from the dead. And so I know it is possible to differentiate languages according to the way they are forgotten as well. I managed to forget some other languages now, in this war. In French I still can say anything I want to, but I can’t understand a word. With Greek it’s the opposite, I can’t say anything any more, but I can understand everything said to me. In a word, one emerges from war more or less dumb. "
