Anamnesiology
May 6th, 2023
That is not a real word — it was made up by the creator of fantastic stories. Although — who am I to decide what are real words or not? It has letters arranged in a way to make pronunciation work easily. It has the meaning assigned by deducted definition of parts that make this word whole. And it was used once in print, in a book that was officially published with copies in bookstores and collections and libraries. And it might be in the minds of those who read it and decided to keep it in memory.
I kept it in my memory and that could be the reason to consider this word real. My memories are real.
I used this word several times myself — on this blog for example. And I find myself thinking about this word a lot. Maybe a lot is not the right word, and I want to be precise with the words I use so I will try again— I think about this word occasionally but with an intensity that fills out my consciousness and make me shiver deep inside my being. Anamnesiology is the study of what was forgotten. Study of those things and ideas and thoughts that were abandoned by progress, that lost their meaning to chronology and its snobbery. Again, I am not precise — those things and ideas and thoughts didn't lose their meaning, they became meaningless to those — who worship progress and assume the past irrelevant. Or old-fashioned.
I like old-fashion — in style and speech and aesthetics and myself being. I like progress as well but I can find a proper place and fit in the whole of my being for both of those ideas. And with intensity, I see anamnesiology as a calling for something I want to do. In my life, with my life, for my whole life, for the rest of my life. I see dignity and pleasure in looking for elusive forgotten things, for bringing them up to give them another chance — even if that chance will start and end with me only.
