I believe an important quote From Professor Sexon's article on Joyce.

"To remember is
not only to bring to mind what
has been hiding, but also to reassemble
carnally, to remember,
to rebuild fleshy bits
into an animate whole. It is simultaneously
a mental and
physical act, linking word to
image and gesture, mediated
experience to pantomime." (From Michael Sexon's article)

I love this quote because it emphasizes how remembering is a necessity in everything that we do. It is fleshy, even the most seemingly little things like waving include all sorts of memory. Muscle memory, your body has to remember the action of waving. Mental memory, you have to remember what the signal actually means. Processing memory, you also have to remember the correct response to such a gesture. The quote puts life to something that I may have just connected to academia. We have to use memory not only conciously but subconsiuosly to actually survive.