"you like to think memory goes far back though remembering was never recommended.  forget all that, the world says.  the world's had a lot of practice.  no one should adhere to the facts that contribute to narrative, the facts that create lives.  to your mind, feelings are what create a person, something unwilling, something wild vandalizing whatever the skull holds.  those sensations form a someone.  the headaches begin then.  don't wear sunglasses in the house, the world says, though they soothe, soothe sight, soothe you."
--citizen: an american lyric, by claudia rankine, pg. 61

this visual of wearing sunglasses when you remember what has happened in the past, as though the past were too bright - hurt too much - to look at with your bare eyes - i love this image.  and i'm really liking this book, though it makes me uncomfortable, angry, frustrated.