“The Memory Hole” is an essay by writer Michael Chabon. It’s about throwing away his children’s artwork. Here is a short excerpt:
I will be haunted by the memory of the way my younger daughter looks at me, when she chances upon a crumpled sheet of paper in the recycling bin, bearing the picture, the very portrait, of five minutes stolen from the headlong rush of their little hour in my care: she looks betrayed.
“I don’t know how that got in there,”I tell her.”That was clearly a mistake. What a great dog.”
“It’s a girl kung fu master.”
“Of course,”I say. Then when she isn’t looking, I throw it away again.
