The stench of blood was worse than buffalo flesh, another remembers.
Another remembers a roommate asking her what she'd do if the bomb were coming.
You must die.' Another remembered the words differently, 'You must be eliminated.
Another remembers the toy backhoe, a miniature version of the one his father drove on a chain gang down South.
Another remembered, "There were early morning drills, before breakfast, forenoon drills, afternoon drills, evening and night drills, beside guard mounting and dress parades".
Another remembered reading Dr. Taylor's books about pastoring and preaching "to learn all the things they didn't teach at Harvard Divinity School".
Another remembers how she was a good wife to her husband and then, one day, opened the door of the broom closet and found God standing there.
Along the way, Japanese learned a bit of humility and, in one interview after another, remembered kinship rather than their traditional emphasis on distinction from other Asians.
Another remembered it this way: Rome is burning, and I'm supposed to be up in the Bronx talking about predatory lending.
This is the simple but brilliant device of an anonymous telephone caller who says, to all the principal characters at one time or another: "Remember you must die".
