Myths of Memory
A PRIMER FOR FORGETTING: Getting Past the Past
BY LEWIS HYDE
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 341 pp., $28
LEWIS HYDE’S MIND is on tumble dry here, an ornate and earnest chaos.
It’s as if he’d awakened morning after morning to find jottings on his night table, like a pile of leaves. Not quite understanding them, Hyde would hypothesize that they sprang from forgotten truths he might or might not have understood at the time he had thought of them. Now he’d remembered them in the dreams
