I remember being summoned to a press conference in Rome when Reeves arrived to start filming.
Life goes on – I have since had a family of my own and he travels a lot – in any case, when I think back to that trip, I remember it more as a summoning up of her spirit, one that enabled us both to finally lay her ghost to rest.
I remember a trader who tossed her summons into the garbage.
Although having a horse of my own seemed a Jobian endeavour, demanding reservoirs of emotional endurance and resilience that I can't remember having summoned up, I didn't give up until I went to college, where I took up my substitute life at last and my mother breathed a sigh of relief.
Potent, fragile and tender, "When I Forgot" is really the story of "When I Remembered," of a woman summoning the courage to unlock her memories and share them, and feeling the relief of exhaling a breath held too long.
I was summoned to the theatre to meet the producers, and I remember sitting there watching them walk back and forth, checking watches, not realizing that I was the person they were waiting for.
I remember, in rehearsals, you began reverting to an almost tribal ancestral behaviour, as if you were summoning the ancestors, which you do with stamping.
A Japanese tourist summoned the courage to approach him and said, "I was a D.J., I remember you from the Roxy".
I still salivate when I remember the smell of the ragu she cooked up onstage in de Filippo's play: a eucharistic meal, summoning all of humankind to a profane, rollicking communion.
I remember, you remember.
