For posterity: I think anyone really interested in these ideas of remembrance would enjoy reading Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time". It's very long, but I genuinely believe the length contributes meaningfully to helping you appreciate the weight of the insights portrayed in it. Basically I think the length helps you feel the passage of time better in a way that could not be truncated.

I think think the digital age is rendering Proust's key insight, that we associate memories with physical places/sensations, obsolete due to the inherent lack of physicality for our brains to work with. Recent work[1] in psychology/philosophy seems to be backing up Proust's observations more concretely, and it makes me wonder if projects like Dynamicland [2] will become more mainstream as we recognize the value of physical interaction in how we think.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_cognition [2] https://dynamicland.org/