Musical eras flashed by and intermingled like happily jumbled memories at the Verizon Jazz Festival's finale, a free concert Saturday afternoon on the Columbia University campus.
Yet her own grave is lost to memory, jumbled and forgotten with the rest of the slave remains -- somewhere, historians surmise, beneath what is now a Hampton Inn motel.
One student wrote, "A chalkboard is a lot like memory: often jumbled, unorganized and sloppy.
In the awful cases of reading and editing and re-reading over and over again, it's hard not to get all jumbled up with those memories instead of seeing clearly what's actually there; you know too much, is maybe how to put it.
This morning, the memory of that walk had been jumbled carelessly among all Carrie's other memories; now it had to be separated from the rest, darkened with foreboding.
Many, like Misty Mayo, fall somewhere in between, with memories that are jumbled and confused.
His own memories were all jumbled up and he liked it that way because the random juxtapositions sometimes made interesting connections between people and events that he had not previously noticed.
Schulze resists the temptation to seduce us with the joys and betrayals of the period, as if that would be yet another form of exploitation, but the resulting epistolary jumble of memory and event is inevitably less resonant for an American audience than for a German one.
There are lots of "ums" and dead spots when the thread of the plot is briefly lost, and Rambo Nut often stares dumbly for a moment or two, trying to ferret out from the jumble of memory a particular nugget of dialogue or a turn of the story.
These vignettes shift from the present Eva living as a social pariah, a husk of her former self to the past, and are jumbled with the non-chronology of memory.
You could also look at Nordström's works as if they were homemade illustrated newspaper pages of village life – the things everyone knows about and the things no one sees, today's news jumbled up with a confusion of childhood memories, dreams, anecdotes and folk tales.
