As a participant in the failed putsch that led to the murder of the Austrian chancellor, Dollfuss, and began Austria's descent into degradation as a mere outpost of the Greater German Reich, Bauer has grimly crazy, shaming memories to match Voxlauer's.
According to my colleague, George Gleckler, MFT, "We have a library of shame memories in our brain, and when we've been effectively triggered, the library unleashes the old memories in the form of judgment.
Every time a journalist anywhere foments factional hatred, he shames the memory of Abdi Ipekci, editor-in-chief of Milliyet, then Turkey's most influential newspaper.
For example, a story in the Sunday Express claimed survivors of the Dunblane massacre, now turning 18, had "shamed" the memory of the deceased with "foul-mouthed boasts about sex, brawls and drink-fuelled antics" posted on their social networking sites.
"At the end of the day, after years and years of assuming you can steal the pain of people in your pictures and the suffering of soldiers, civilians and starving children and dying children that drop dead in front of you, you have to suffer the shame of memory and then you have to somehow live with it, sleep with it, understand it without trying to become insane," he said.
His artwork branched in infinite directions of style and technique, while often returning to themes of sexuality, shame, childhood, memory, and the monstrous inside.
"There's nothing there for me but shame, bad memories and headstones," Mitch laments, even though he agrees to the journey.
It's a shame if its memory and significance can't be preserved.
As for the Swift boat veterans themselves, it is a shame that the memory of their bravery in the Vietnam War has been forever tainted by this sad episode.
The sexual thing between him and Connie is funny, quite twisted and yet homely, not phony: it's made up of shaming things, like his memory of her using the chamber pot, or her pushing him in a pram.
Then a memory of shame makes him wince.
