He asked when Mr. Sims felt the terrific memory creeping upon him.
Recently he began to complain bitterly of creeping short-term memory impairment and a general slowing of his motor functions.
Acheson keeps creeping into his memories, simply because he lives in the same house.
Yet, for all the outward optimism, even before the recent gyrations on Wall Street, old fears have been creeping in, nagging memories of the dot-com bust.
Such findings could one day help to reveal why memories fail in old age or disease, or how false memories creep into eyewitness testimony.
"[Bad memories] started creeping in, but the adrenaline was flowing," Thayer said.
Her latest, White, sets two oblivion-loving strangers down in the Antarctic and then lets their memories creep up on them.
When things grew ill-tempered in the 12th minute, memories crept in of the 1975 Battle of Ballymore, a full riot in whose early stages the England prop Mike Burton was sent off.
But for Stein, the memory loss after Jason's death was creeping, invading not just her recollections of him, but memories of her whole life from that time.
Yet Feldman's repetitions were always hesitant, irregular, creeping back as ambiguously as dim memories, never propulsive and metronomic like those of Mr. Reich and Mr. Glass.
