When Harwood wrote about an acting company touring the English provinces during World War II to bring the Bard to the Blitz-weary, he was already remembering time past.
Most deportees are already remembered on a plaque near to the proposed site of the memorial, commemorating the 1,003 men, women and children deported from Guernsey and Sark during 1942 and 1943.
Despite the stumbling blocks, it now seems a perfectly natural extension of my professional role as an academic to be a consultant on the side, and I'm already finding it hard to remember what I did before.
"By nine, I was already obsessed," she remembers, in love with "the pure pleasure and evasion of being at that instrument".
On my birthday this year only two of my friends remembered, so I was already feeling pretty depressed about it.
In fact, I remained the same person with the same life on the same two e-mail accounts I was already using, and that person couldn't remember the passwords or user names for the additional ones.
"It was the holiday season and I was already working 80 hours a week," Holly remembered.
I can guarantee you that you won't be reminding them of anything they aren't already remembering with sadness.
One can count the ways in which "Miss Saigon" is already best remembered, and both are dubious.
Antonin Scalia, who died on Saturday after nearly three decades as a Supreme Court justice, is already being remembered as a giant of conservative legal theory.
"Kid," he said, "I remember, you were already here on my first day.
