Has it forgotten us, as we forget ourselves?
"As we forget, our memories abstract and our brain goes through a cleansing process".
According to Freud, we repeat as we forget those traumas we have been unable to process, and human life is divided between the work of Eros, which binds and builds, and that of Thanatos, which unbinds and destroys.
"An Octoroon" isn't just an alternative to the irony-free "black American theatre" of Hansberry and August Wilson; it's part of it and part of many other things, too, because Jacobs-Jenkins's surrealism grows out of naturalism, the strange circumstances that make us open our mouths, hoping to be heard, even as we forget to listen.
And as long as we forget what justice is, we will continue to fail at doing justice, as our American society is right now.
Something there is that doesn't love the Bomb, That flies six warheads across the country, Mounted by mistake on a bomber's wings, Forgotten, as we forget them daily, Choosing not to know, being practical.
"As Brazilians, we forgot how and why to invest in equities," he says.
When we chose 30 June as the date, we forgot it was a Sunday [the first day of the Egyptian working week].
Somewhere, as a generation, we forgot the lesson of those holiday clubs.
