v. o. kapelman· v. o. kapelman · Notes · 1 min read
Walking the Old Street
On returning to the places that shaped a story, and finding them changed.
This is sample text. The street in my novel no longer exists as I remember it, yet I walked it again last spring, notebook in hand.
Memory and invention
A bildungsroman borrows from life and then argues with it. The real street was narrower. The fictional one has to be true in a different way.
Why return
Because places remember what people forget, and because the light at dusk is the same everywhere you have ever been young.
