Have you ever thought you liked a terrible song just because you remembered it, mistaking mere recollection for actual nostalgia?
"As a Christian, it shocked me," he sputtered, as if the mere recollection retained the power to distress, "and I thought to myself, 'We're losing Christmas!'" Mobilization was in order; it just happened to coincide with a move to the Village of Patchogue, where he and his wife, Donna, bought a waterfront lot and relocated in 2005 after 33 years in Bellport.
Is mere recollection enough?
The mere recollection of the TV announcer's words still strikes fear into my bones.
Misfortune of sundry kinds, and especially financial, can easily be put into perspective by the mere recollection of the mayhem one has been through.
The mere recollection of the trip was exhausting, and Mr. Garretson, who still remembers boys crying on the trail, did not return for 53 years.
Of all the sentences I'd expected to find in a novel by Tolstoy, this was not one of them: "Darya Alexandrovna shuddered at the mere recollection of the pain from cracked nipples that she had endured with almost every child".
If I weren't going to be at Film Forum tonight, I'd be at Film Society of Lincoln Center for the 9 P.M. screening of John Cassavetes's "Love Streams"; the mere recollection of the angle of Cassavetes's fierce, tortured brow thrust forth like the prow of a hulking, drifting ship makes me want to head over there.
Today, nearly 20 years later, my lungs still tighten at the mere recollection of that ride.
But my memories are more than mere recollections of "images" in my head, for I also have vivid muscle memory, and when watching and cheering for Lindsey Vonn and Ted Ligety, I can literally feel my leg muscles contract as if I were on the course myself.
On the one side are these colossal Proustian memory bullies who get 1,800 pages of recollection out of a mere cookie-bite.
