Thursday, May 16, 2013

23 snapshots of SF

I think it would be easy to see that 23 snapshots of SF is about memories considering the fact that pictures capture a specific moment in time. Memories, in my opinion, are rather obscure because I don't actually remember what happened step by step. Memories become distorted just like photos that fade over the years. And like the narrator's memories, the pictures are fragments of what everything was "before everything happened" (203). And kind of like a bad disease, the narrator starts to forget who was his life except for those he loved or at least, were important in some kind of way. For example in snapshot 7, the narrator cannot remember where the photo was taken and he cannot remember who "a lot of [those] faces" are anymore. I think it is kind of funny how his memories blur along with his pictures and like the beginning of the short story, there are only 23 shots instead of 24; he does not remember what happened to the one lost.

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