This is the Bloom one reads in graduate school, and I can indeed remember "The Anxiety of Influence" as having initially baffled and even angered me.
Because while I did indeed remember all these things (Smufs were smurf-tastic and Snorks had tube-shaped heads), my memories seemed to lack the wistful wonder of those around me, and so when it came to the matter of nostalgia I felt inherently deficient.
Only much later did I realize that I was, indeed, remembering the memory: Murakami had transferred it to one of his very minor characters near the beginning of "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Indeed, I remember thinking, "As long as I have breath in my body, I will never return to Jamaica". Coming to the U.S. was the best decision of my life.
Indeed I remember discarding one of them as too steep, in my cursory scouting of its first couple of chapters, to be worth climbing, pending the judgment of others I had confidence in that the view would be worth the effort.
Indeed, I remember my own experience in Mexico in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when I was part of the International Monetary Fund's team working with officials there to assist with the country's recovery from the Latin American debt crisis.
Indeed, I remember the time when the butchers' union had more than 15,000 members in New York.
Indeed, I remember being taught as a medical student more than 20 years ago that morphine should be used sparingly for pain because, as a respiratory depressant, it would slow and could even stop patients' breathing.
Marzano is hardly the biggest name in women's football, indeed I remember watching her put four goals (including a first half hat-trick) past Bankstown City in the second tier of women's football in New South Wales just last year.
