It was at this time that I first interviewed him for the Observer, a brief encounter now freighted in my mind with delight, sadness, and regret mingled with a fugitive, faint memory of some lovely ironies.
I wanted to capture these emotions, a lepidopterist pinning fugitive butterfly memories to the cork of the page.
Made in 1994, after the first general election in South Africa brought quiet to what had been a tumultuously violent period, the film struggles with the fugitive nature of memory, how those that should remain with intensity get diluted and obscured over time.
A phonautogram would enable a singer to record a phrase precisely, leaving "an imperishable trace of those fugitive melodies which the memory no longer finds when it seeks them".
In prose as dense, sensuous, and imagistic as her verse, Fugitive Pieces pursues themes of memory, loss, time, and history but also the power, immediacy, and beauty of the natural world.
"Hey, was I with you when I did 'The Fugitive?' " he asked his wife, his memory suddenly jogged.
Coming attractions include Fran?s Ozon's "Sous le Sable"; the pioneering New York independent feature "Little Fugitive" (1953); and Hou Hsiao-hsien's plangent memory film, "A Summer at Grandpa's" (1984).
Elizabeth is a fugitive presence in the novel; she exists in the tissue of communal memory evoked by the letters.
While exploring Treasure Planet's forests, the fugitives meet B.E.N. (Martin Short), an abandoned, whimsical robot who claims to have lost most of his memory and invites them to his house to care for the wounded Amelia.
Writing for AllMusic, reviewer Steve Huey opined that Mustaine "tries to conjure memories" of Rust in Peace and Countdown to Extinction, but while comparing "Dread and the Fugitive Mind" to "Sweating Bullets" (from Countdown to Extinction) said that much of the material "feels like rehashed Megadeth".
