But the other day, when she turned on the television and saw a picture of part of a plane's landing gear, the memories rushed back.
The central theme of "Plowing" is the human urge to recreate the world, be it through the imaginative transactions of art, the generative miracles of science or the grinding gears of memory.
Our findings are consistent with a 1995 study, where 55 recreational scuba divers who attended a dive equipment exhibition were asked to perform a pre-dive check on a pre-assembled scuba gear from their memory and experience without using a written checklist.
Like Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past," it bares its inner gears of reconstituted memory and ends by promising its own composition.
Are you frankly terrified at the report last week, showing mental acuity can start to deteriorate from the age of 45? Then get your brain in gear as psychologist and memory expert Charles Fernyhough, has been live online today answering readers' questions and sharing his advice.
Those who get in early will also get a free Gear Fit2 or 256GB memory card, and everyone will get one of five gaming packs good for free downloads.
Banks pouring money into technology funds, wealthy clients and institutions clamoring to get pieces of start-ups, expectations of stock market debuts building — as Wall Street's machinery kicks into second gear, some investors with memories of the Internet bust a decade earlier are wondering whether this sudden burst of activity spells danger for the industry once again.
The young jack-of-all-trades shared a few words with us about the release of his debut album lucid dreams, his choice of gear, and the fading memories of childhood piano lessons.
All of this military gear brought back unfortunate memories of the clash between Mi'kmaq protesters and heavily armed New Brunswick RCMP officers, snipers, and private police forces that rocked the province late last year.
He is typically risk-averse, but those who accuse him of only having one gear must have very short memories indeed.
