Aciman returns to memory obsessively, looking for the words that can help him understand it better, finding solace in the idea of being in one place while desiring another, not for the sake of being in that other place, but for the sake of desire itself.
As for Tariq Malik and Riffat Jariullah, they keep returning to memories.
This is a theme she returns to – memories of moving through life as if stepping on stage, and then realising she's "not that girl".
After abandoning work on The Circus, Ray returned to memories of his childhood experiences, with a cycle of three linked works, shown at the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro.
To that end, Mr. Alden's production was a "Dream" within a dream: a man on the eve of his wedding day — Puck, all grown up — returns to memories of his school days.
Another thing I've found very hopeful is returning to memories of childhood.
I can guarantee you will return to the memory with whomsoever you share it.
But the director John Ford taught us that, one day, the murder will return to active memory and will be recalled as the tragic moment when he rose above where he began: when he learned the cost of living among armed young men who used real guns as though they were no more lethal than cap pistols.
Once you become someone else's property, the past is on rewind as you return to the memory of who you once were.
The people I speak to often return to happy memories of childhood, the shivery pleasures of larking in lidos when they were younger.
