But occasionally it happens that (while thus doubting) we get a sudden idea and recollect that we heard or saw something formerly.
Left entirely to myself, I try to learn the best I can, and to recollect what I hear; but I am getting old, and want of early practice tells on me.
I have, while roaming the streets of New York, glimpsed corners that recalled quarters of Naples; I have sniffed odors that recalled sections of Budapest; I have eaten food that recalled cafes of Moscow; I cannot, however, recollect ever having seen, heard, smelled, or tasted in New York anything that recalled Ystradyfodwg in Wales.
By Charles G. Shaw The New Yorker, July 27 , 1929P. 15 I have, while roaming the streets of New York, glimpsed corners that recalled quarters of Naples; I have sniffed odors that recalled sections of Budapest; I have eaten food that recalled cafes of Moscow; I cannot, however, recollect ever having seen, heard, smelled, or tasted in New York anything that recalled Ystradyfodwg in Wales.
It has a special charm, we're sure, but we've put off sending it West, recollecting all those nasty suits over studio piracy that we've been hearing about for year.
Hearing a British eyewitness on a recent 5 Live Breakfast (Weekdays, 6am) calmly recount his experience of looking for his wife in the immediate aftermath of the atrocity in Nice was to be reminded of the fact that nothing can pin you to the wall with greater force than terrible events soberly recollected.
We do hear them recollecting their experiences in a short video.
It is also beautifully written: recollecting two famous conductors he heard at Leeds Town Hall, Bennett observes that "it is Barbirolli who touches the heart and serves the music, unlike Sargent who merely presents it".
For he who endeavours to recollect infers that he formerly saw, or heard, or had some such experience, and the process (by which he succeeds in recollecting) is, as it were, a sort of investigation.
