1. In Greek mythology, Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory, is also the mother of the nine muses.
2. Virginia Woolf found nothing with which to identify in Milton’s account of it in Paradise Lost. “Has any great poem ever let in so little light upon one’s own joys and sorrows?” she wrote, saying what we all feel: the guilt of our inability to remember this.
3. But while the fall may appear to be a test of the art work’s self sufficiency, it is something far more important. The fall provides a shock that is essential to creation. {Susan Mitchell, Notes Towards a History of Scaffolding}
4. Which of the two worlds of Wuthering Heights (if either) does Bronte intend to represent the truly “fallen” world? {Gilbert and Gruber, Madwoman in the Attic}
5. Where darkness falls so fast it feels like some kind of mistake. {Joanna Newsom, In California}
