A neat variation, this, on the old belief that the eye of a corpse retains an image of its murderer.
But the Palm, at least for now, manages to retain an image of privilege and status.
I retain an image of Sabine Rewald, a curator at the Metropolitan, who looks like a Vermeer, lifting a spoonful of pink sorbet to her mouth and smiling happily.
A similar case in 2009 compelled the Metropolitan police to remove 40% of the photographs it held on a database of protesters after the court of appeal ruled that the force had unlawfully retained an image of an anti-war campaigner, Andrew Wood.
The force's public order unit, CO11, was recently forced to delete 40% of the photographs it holds on a database of protesters after the court of appeal ruled in a landmark judgment it had illegally retained an image of Andrew Wood, an anti-war campaigner.
His basic thought is that our sensations remain after the act of sensing, but in a weaker way: "after the object is removed, or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the thing seen, though more obscure than when we see it" (Hobbes 1651, 2.2).
In 1880, the French engineer Maurice LeBlanc pointed out that, because the human eye retains an image for about a tenth of a second, if you wanted to transmit a picture you didn't have to send it all at once.
"History will retain an image — that of 84 chiefs of state and of governments united," he declared.
The participants had to remember the first pattern of dots, and retained a mental image of its direction of motion in their visual working memory.
And as Ms. Linney's and Mr. Ruffalo's grown-up Samantha and Terry reunite, quarrel and reminisce, you retain a lingering image of the two of them as children, silently clinging to each other, still mute with shock.
"I'm a lifeguard, I surf, so I shouldn't be scared of this but personally, water deaths are my least favorite deaths". In high school, Ms. Woods read Sebastian Junger's "Perfect Storm," about the sinking of a fishing boat, and, ever since she's retained a visceral image of drowning.
