When, in that Austrian field, a former United States soldier and a onetime member of the SS bond over an American show tune, what began as a treasure hunt has transformed into a meditation on conscience, memory and the terrible legacies of war.
Neurotransmitters take part in the regulation of conscience, memory, and learning through the central cholinergic system [ 36].
The former Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks, described him as "our keeper of the conscience of memory".
Her hope is that Elsie will become "a more reflective tutelary spirit," just as she herself has been South County's conscience, its memory.
Roth's Everyman is not imperceptive or naïve but helplessly under the spell of mortality: no radical insights, no celestial harmonies, only an unrelenting awareness of unalterable mistakes, an amalgam of bad conscience, gratitude, memory, and longing.
As wardens cycled through, Crittendon became the institution's memory, conscience, and consigliere; the duties he took on included everything from organizing inmate walkathons for charity to running the prison museum.
As the poem closes he asks the coat to "Be with me when they cauterize the facts / Be with me at the bottom of the page / Insisting on what history exacts / Be memory, conscience, will and rage".
The grandee is pained by "a conscience and no memory at all", but his conscience does not prevent the bodies from piling up as Van Stratten, trawling the European underworld, unwittingly lets loose the century's political monsters along with Arkadin's own intimate ones.
This approaches the experience of reading "Touch and Go," the memoir by the professional listener, talker, actor, author and conscience of long memory Studs Terkel It hardly matters that he is 95 years old; that he has weathered myriad medical challenges, including open-heart surgery just two years ago; that his ears, once so attuned, don't hear so well anymore.
I had no axes to grind intellectually, and if along the way issues of memory and conscience and class order arose, that was fine.
"There was the past that served for everyday use, and then there was another past, informed by memory and conscience, more difficult to acknowledge".
