Competing relatives and biographers struggle to sustain our interest, as they vie to control their evanescent "memories of memories".As the 20th century unfolds, an ageing cast reinvents and pokes at Cecil, with letters and fragments as ammunition in the wars of literary remembrance.
This recitation of the professional successes racked up by those who produced the catastrophe of Iraq calls our attention to how evanescent memories of that historic exercise in deceit and failure are.
Last week, in the Guardian, Caspar Salmon wrote a piece titled "Talk is cheap: will anyone save us from the waking nightmare of director Q&As?" In it, he states, "The succession of images that are still floating about as so many evanescent moments and memories in your mind at the end of a movie will always be catastrophically disrupted by an earnest discussion about the audition process".
In sum, our findings suggest that cognitive deficits are not evanescent and that visual memory delays and general intelligence delays do not follow the same evolution in time.
Like movies and baseball, jazz is an art of memory; arising from evanescent workaday miracles, it doubles its aesthetic delights with an instant nostalgia.
The implicit plea not to be forgotten applies not just to the villagers, soldiers and horses portrayed here, but also to theater, as an evanescent art that lives on only in audiences' memories.
All that has occurred on board the Oronsay, all that was seen and experienced, is carried ashore by the passengers in memories, damaged psyches, degrees of loss, evanescent joy and reordered lives.
Besides being very well cooked — its legs were braised in a mushroom broth and the rest was deboned and stuffed with ground pork, raisins, carrots and herbs — this pig was playing a secondary role as a piece of art, an evanescent one that would soon exist only in the fond memories of about 100 people who were to eat pieces of it.
Its refracted dialogue, its evanescent scene-setting, the wary dance of its characters and their obliquely recalled memories of erotic love and death are meant to seduce you with life's most titillating mysteries and to provoke a curiosity about form and content in narrative art.
Its refracted dialogue, its evanescent scene-setting, the wary dance of its characters and their obliquely recalled memories of erotic love and death are meant to seduce you with life's most titillating mysteries as well as to provoke a curiosity about form and content in narrative art.
