Food imagery comes so easily because eating, as we are reminded here again and again, is so fundamental.
I am reminded here of the exasperated lament of former Senator Fred Thompson, Republican of Tennessee, after Congressional hearings on the managerial, accounting and financial scandals of the late 1990s.
One is reminded here of Archilochus's ancient and somewhat baffling adage: "The fox knows many things - the hedgehog knows one big thing".
In the film "Bull Durham," a character famously refers to "the Church of Baseball," and one is reminded here often of how far a lively mind can wander in church.
(I am reminded here of the Russian term vranyo, meaning an unstoppable compulsion to lie, with the falsehood recognised both by the liar and the person lied to).
We are reminded here than in 1972 Dr. Spock, running on a People's Party ticket, got 78,756 votes for President & that the Girl Scouts, accommodate no fewer than 114,000 5-year-olds in a membership class called Daisies.
(Anyone who is reminded here of the plot of "The Pianist" might be interested to know that Halina Szpilman, the widow of Władysław Szpilman, who inspired the Polanski film, is alive and well in Warsaw; I met her at a concert by the Sinfonia Iuventus).
Both Houses of Parliament gave her a standing ovation after her address to MPs and peers in ancient Westminster Hall, where the Queen said: "We are reminded here of our past, of the continuity of our national story and the virtues of resilience, ingenuity and tolerance which created it.
I'm reminded here not just of people with real, debilitating illnesses but of those who use the Net for political purposes, like Afghan women protesting their treatment under the Taliban, members of the Zapatista movement in Mexico and Tibetan monks protesting China's rule of their homeland.
Only the main results are reminded here, and the reader may find more detailed calculus in [26].
