Remembering how to remember

A 2nd-century AD papyrus fragment from Oxyrhynchus containing Plato's Phaedrus, discussed below.

Information is useless if it can't be stored. It's even more useless if it can't be retrieved. Without memory and memorialisation, we'd live in a perpetual present - and I have a feeling it wouldn't be great. So I'm thankful for memory, but even as I express …