It is as if, in treating London as a glorious fiction, he is remembering, rather than uncovering and disclosing.
In the annals of international law, it is for this that General Pinochet will be remembered rather than for his own lucky escape from justice.
It is the baseball equivalent of the French Foreign Legion, with the twist that those here are hoping to be remembered, rather than forgotten.
In the poems again it is the characters that are remembered rather than the landscapes the village parson, the village schoolmaster, the sharp, yet not unkindly portraits of Garrick and Burke.
It's important to her that the thousands of good times be remembered rather than the one horrific thing, although that sort of blistering optimism hasn't really removed the shadow from sunbaked Miami either.
Four years ago, when the New-York Historical Society gave a more complete showing of these photographs, they seemed to suggest that Sept. 11 was still something to be remembered rather than interpreted, still an event that could only be invoked as a series of traumatic memories, not as a historical event to be understood and put into context.
According to Thomas Carew, a neuroscientist at Yale University, the commonplace experience that the most reliable way to build a long-term memory is through repeated exposure to the thing to be remembered, rather than by short-term "cramming", is reflected at the molecular level.
Ronald Knox, on the other hand, says, "It was the fashion among the Jansenists to represent Antoine Arnauld as a great theologian; he should be remembered, rather as a great controversialist… A theologian by trade, Arnauld was a barrister by instinct" (Knox 1950, 196).
In 1929, the Dictionary of American Biography described Bayard, as a Senator, as being "remembered rather for his opposition to Republican policies ... than for constructive legislation of the successful solution of great problems", and said that he had "the convictions of an earlier day ... and was never inclined, either politically or socially, to seek popularity with the country at large".
As American celebrates the 237th anniversary of its declaration of independence, it would be nice if some of its founding principles, such as freedom of religion and expression, as expressed in the First Amendment, were remembered, rather than some of its foreign policy blunders.
