Canadian Quotes: Ian Williams
On July 28th, we celebrate Ian Williams!
A conversation's ephemerality suggests to me that it is forgiving. The words come and go; they are present, then they disappear. One can hold on to them in memory but at that point we're dealing with fragments. The actual conversation in real time disappears. You can change your mind about what you said and inscribe a new conversation over the old one. If conversations are so temporal, merciful, even ethereal, then perhaps we should grant each other a similar lightness to be.
- from What I Mean To Say: Remaking Conversation In Our Time by Ian Williams
