Was that a symptom of his dilemma - that experience and the writing of it were one and the same thing; that he did not recollect in tranquillity but most horribly lived through and then re-lived it all?
"The impact of the murder of Joe Campbell reverberated throughout RUC at the time, I was surprised the chief constable did not recollect it," he said.
I don't recollect anyone actually landing on the floor.
"It's just as well you don't recollect us".
"I don't recollect Umpire Lardy Darar standing in England yet.
Her answers offered a careful tap dance of don't recall, don't recollect, don't remember.
"I don't recollect that I said about half," she replied.
I don't recollect too many extra-base hits that we've had here lately.
He responded repeatedly to questions with the answer, "I don't recollect".
(Full disclosure: Janeway writes in his acknowledgments that during his 10-year writing process I helped him with a research question, although I don't recollect doing so).
