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I was struck by the way you portray our efforts to remember and memorialize the dead, which are often as humble and awkward as our lives themselves.
Five of the 10 stories explore Rhoda's complicated relationship with her father and her efforts to remember it truthfully after his death.
For example, all memories seem to be established in specific surroundings or contexts, and subsequent efforts to remember tend to be less effective when the circumstances differ from the original.
But when a new password is introduced, that person's efforts to remember it compete with his or her memory of the old one, and the mechanisms in the prefrontal cortex have to work hard to resolve which one to remember.
We can break out of this insidious circle by making greater efforts to remember the dead of both sides – not just with a few passing words, but with names, photographs, histories.
In a scene in which a persistent toothpaste advertisement is distracting Montag from his efforts to remember a certain book and its distinctive evocation of "the lilies of the field," he turns the product's innocuous name, Denham's Dentifrice, into something sinister and abominable.
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It took great effort to remember her name.
It takes some effort to remember that this orchestra used to be a fairly wild group.
He did not, we must make an effort to remember, have posterity's view of himself.
B assumes she is making an effort to remember, and waits in silence.
Should he have made more of an effort to remember the dead man's name?
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