One recollection: "I once traveled incognito as a nun," Ms. Diller, 85, said.
One recollection is stronger than any other -- a soldier in a red beret, down on one knee, leveling his self-loading rifle toward me and shooting.
In one recollection, the young Emmanuel, at the time he thinks he is being sent to school, astutely wonders why the Western aid workers are "nowhere to be found except in food lines or the hospital".
Dispensing with linear narrative, Crouch develops his themes through improvisation, in the form of flashback and stream of consciousness, working one recollection into another as a way of deepening the texture of the story.
That is one recollection among scores documented by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey from its police officers in the months after the disaster in Lower Manhattan that claimed more than 2,700 lives, 84 of them Port Authority employees, with 37 of those Port Authority officers.
Is there even one recollection of them ever complaining?
It's surprising how much the passage of time can change one's recollections.
An alternative view is that the parietal lobe might be responsible for the subjective experience of richness, vividness, and confidence in one's recollections, and that the impoverished autobiographical memory observed by Berryhill et al. could be due to impaired subjective experience of memory (Ally et al. 2008; Davidson et al. 2008).
It relied heavily on the recollections of one of the members of Kerrey's platoon, who, as the Times acknowledged, had a history of drinking problems, but also on the memories of other participants in the raid, including Kerrey himself.
One final recollection: at one concert, after the lights went down, a man and woman went past me to get to the center seats.
