(It is a signal strength of "Experience," Martin Amis's vivacious memoir of Kingsley Amis: the son, confident in his own literary powers, grants his father an equivalent liberty).
This signals both a shift toward the end of the memoir and the end of the narrator's boyhood.
Once you've given it permission to access information on your phone and social networks, Memoir slurps up all your connected photos, check-ins, and other social signals, grouping overlapping information into separate "memories" on its servers.
In his 2015 memoir Pour Me: a Life, Gill described the alarming symptoms of his alcoholism: "Death signals from the blood in the bog, the pus in the sock, the tingling in the fingers".
One of the signal moments in recent Chinese cinema is the opening of "Fengming: A Chinese Memoir," a documentary by Wang Bing, in which the camera follows an elderly woman as she walks silently home.
Eggers's sometimes inspired, too often self-congratulatory memoir is full of nods towards what Wallace calls "a world whose defining boundaries have been deformed by electric signal".
A memoir within a memoir.
