He now is groping for something palpable in the blur of memories he has accumulated since the deadly intrusion from the sky.
He's not joking, for Taylor is so wrapped up in his story that we lose ourselves in a blurring of meaning and memory.
I enjoyed his humor, the gobbling of madeleines that would lead to him collapsing under the weight of memories, the blurring of actor and author and so on.
Other possible adverse effects include drowsiness, temporary blurring of vision and, infrequently, disorientation, memory loss, restlessness, dizziness and hallucinations.
Trauma has blurred my memory of what immediately followed, but, thanks to U.V.A.'s durable e-mail system, an elaborate record remains.
"Almost all of my work deals with memory and the reconstruction of memory," he says, "the place where representation and abstraction come together, where there is a blurring between the two.
Memory, all kinds of memory, is exploding.
There is now consistent evidence that parents report blurred memory of the birth, a rollercoaster of emotions and are initially overpowered by the NICU environment.
The album, a continuous blur of elegiac half-memories coming into view, drifting into the narcotic haze of the never-really-there, was allegedly recorded in one take at the duo's mystical studio, Trancentral.
