One of the major works of an important modern philosopher, Matter &amp; Memory investigates the autonomous yet interconnected planes formed by matter &amp; perception on the one hand &amp; memory &amp; time on the other. Henry Bergson (1859-1941) was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1927. His works include Time &amp; Free Will, An Introduction to Metaphysics, Creative Evolution &amp; The Creative Mind.

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at long, very long, intervals, and by as many leaps over enormous periods of the inner history of things, quasi-instantaneous views will be taken, views which this time are bound to be pictorial, and of which the more vivid colours will condense an infinity of elementary repetitions and changes. In just the same way the multitudinous successive positions of a runner are contracted into a single symbolic attitude, which our eyes perceive, which art reproduces, and which becomes for us all the image of a man running. The glance which falls at any moment on the things about us only takes in the effects of a multiplicity of inner repetitions and evolutions, effects which are, for that very reason, discontinuous, and into which we bring back continuity by the relative movements that we attribute to 'objects' in space. The change is everywhere, but inward; we localize it here and there, but outwardly; and thus we constitute bodies which are both stable as to their qualities and mobile as to their positions, a mere change of place summing up in itself, to our eyes, the universal transformation.”     Now, whether or not I think he is  right  is sort of beside the point here, what is interesting for me is how clearly all this provides a philosophical underpinning for what Woolf, Richardson, Joyce etc were trying to do.

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