What can one do with one’s life? By this I don’t mean to raise questions as to how
it should be lived. a matter far beyond the scope of this book (or any that I could
write). I mean simply, how can one deal with all the events. people, places, ideas.
fuuy memories, longforgotten letters, mental snaphshots—and real ones—that lit-
ter the past of each of us? And of course everything is past, including last night.
This book is a way of contending with such fragments. It happens to involve my
personal accumulation. But I think of it as a kind of “How To" volume, a suggestion
for anyone in the mood to start viewing the alphabet as a good filing system into
which everything that has happened can neatly be dropped. The alphabet provides a
comfortingly definitive structure. and you don't have to worry too much about
chronology: personal dates aren't all that important unless you are taking a personal
history test. (I say this because. although I have always liked history, I am very weak
on my own chronology, and must rely on a good friend [see ANNE].)
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Helga Dudman was born in New York, left at three months, and
thereafter lived in Vienna, San Francisco. Washington, D.C.,
Frankfurt, New Hampshire, London, Tel Aviv, and Tiberias. She wrote
for The Jerusalem Post for thirty years. This is her fifth book.
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