Fresh from a mount for the trainer Eoin Harty in Godolphin's blue and sweat-sheened in a sleeveless vest, Fallon's thoughts clearly do not stray too far from memories of racetracks buried beneath frost, snow and temporary covers.
But as the case of North Korea poignantly shows, bad leadership and wrong-headed policies can turn robust state institutions into a beast of tyranny, something that is not far from the memory of fellow Confucian countries, who had their own share of despotic leaders in the past.
Circus in 2015 is far removed from memories of doleful clowns squirting water from a flower, sequinned trapeze acts, and Norman Barrett and his performing budgerigars.
That's Genova's earliest memory of being shy, but far from the only memory.
But Hurricane Sandy's impact is far from receding into memory, and the media coverage of the storm and its aftermath is intense.
It's far from a magic memory pill — but 10percentt, as we all know, can often translate to a letter grade.
This is, of course, the story of risk that people such as Freud do not want to linger on, for it is not far from anyone's memory exactly what that risk-taking led to, and who bore the costs.
Still, the days when Central Park's meadows were expanses of mud, not thick grass, and its playgrounds were filled with litter and inhabited by homeless people are not far from anybody's memory.
They're far from a distant memory, and with the right amount of research, you'll find a dedicated group of fans that go to extreme lengths to satisfy their addictions.
