Each of these "memory holes" was dug at a place where a remarkable act had occurred; every time Indians passed by these spots, they recounted the deeds.
That she could trace her family history back to the 1700's in Jamaica using birth certificates and land deeds is remarkable in itself, given the poor records from the days of slavery that usually stall genealogists somewhere in the antebellum South.
In words they looked forward to the end of capitalism, but in deeds they were remarkable reformists.
Sparks believed that the aim of biography was "to bring together a series of facts which should do justice to the fame and character of a man, who possessed qualities, and performed deeds, that rendered him remarkable".
That it was a young, shy former caddie who had done the deed was even more remarkable, and landed Ouimet (and the tiny Eddie Lowery) on front pages from coast to coast.
I don't generally believe in tagging middle-aged people with the deeds of their youth, but there has been remarkable consistency between young lawyer Roberts and Chief Justice Roberts.
For the last 30 years, a new generation of tribal lawyers has blown the dust off old treaties to find that the deeds signed by kings and presidents still have remarkable power in court.
And popular culture has the corporate psycho in plain view which is remarkable, given the corporation's suffocating grip on all thoughts and deeds.
"But he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them … Whether such deeds were reprehensible, or even whether they happened, was always decided according to political predilection".
