Having endured several disastrous polenta - themed meals as an exchange student in France (I think polenta was the only gluten free thing my host - mother knew how to cook *
memory vom *), I have not been polenta's biggest fan.
But the
memory with which the historian is concerned, in so far as it reproduces facts of the past in their purely worldly actuality, is of wholly different order, and
memory in that sense can imperil and even destroy «historic» existence, as Nietzsche showed in
Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Historie für das Leben.