The decades that have passed since he committed his alleged rapes work for him since he knows that the odds of him being plopped in a criminal court docket are slim, and memories of a fickle public dim fast.
He was beaten by a worthy rival in Julian Barnes who, after being shortlisted three times before, bagged the £50,000 award for "The Sense of an Ending", a slim novel about memory.
The book in front of us today is among his final compositions, a slim memoir of his youth titled "Small Memories".
His first novel, dedicated to a British Jewish novelist, Linda Grant, is a slim but potent meditation on memory and exile".The Illusion of Return" is rich in double meaning: the first illusion is that the Palestinians can ever return to their home villages, many of which now lie buried under Israeli housing estates and industrial parks.
Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat who won his first term as Mr. Obama lost here and was the state's longtime attorney general, said he senses strong interest in the state, in part because of the memory of that slim loss in 2008.
With analysts speculating that Apple could roll out everything from a slim laptop sporting lightweight flash memory to a new touchscreen tablet to a second-generation iPhone, it's possible Jobs wants time to give Apple's new products a hard sell.
Luckily, Plastic Logic have created a new flexible handset called MorePhone, which is built out of 'smart memory' wires in a slim plastic display.
Most of this generation should recall the song "Praise You" by Fatboy Slim, which is also a fond memory for the UK producer.
He has written more than 30 books, primarily slim novels working on the theme of memory.
The findings offer a slim ray of hope that the progressive memory loss and mental confusion that characterizes Alzheimer's can at least be slowed by an agent that is inexpensive and easily accessible.
