With Trump at the helm, Republicans will soon have purged their party of any memory of its own past.
Correction: October 21, 2003, Tuesday An article in late editions on Wednesday about a party in memory of George Plimpton misidentified the band that performed with Peter Duchin.
The signage, the t-shirts, the Rob Ford bobbleheads and unavoidable banners have long been the trademark of their brand, and Wednesday night, after a funeral that drew thousands, they flocked to a cavernous convention center to throw one final after party in memory of the controversial leader.
"A sacred space within the Garden," reads the PR, "a respite from the party, a place of contemplation, of memory, of grief, of happiness; it can be all things to all people".
And Rashomon-like accounts of party encounters, "subject to the vagaries of memory, and further obscured by layers of gossip and hearsay and inaudibility, the whole mix invariably transformed even more by alcohol".
"Allowing this man to be a member of the Labour party insults the memory of those who died in the 11 September terror attacks and the British servicemen and women who gave their lives in the Afghanistan conflict that followed.
For the first time in my memory, the party of Keir Hardie and Clement Attlee looks likely to be led again by someone who dares to stand up for the radical changes demanded by the challenges we face.
Whether he's writing about his adult alienation at a toddler's birthday party or the memory of trying to get hold of alcohol as a teenager on New Year's Eve, Knausgaard is prepared to go into extraordinary sensuous detail that can last 50 pages or more.
– Perhaps only Bill Clinton could deliver one of the most brutal partisan poundings of the other party in recent memory and come out of it with people talking about how bipartisan he is.
The paper did not believe it would herald the formation "of a breakaway moderate party" with memories in mind of the SDP's failure.
The "after party" is our memory of the past, not so much recollected in tranquillity as relived in the riotous terms of style and form.
