Now I'm glad for a different reason: it helps me remember small details about him, the little things that slip out of memory, that fade with time.
This was on the grounds that as Will's work was slipping out of memory and his reputation falling, it was the wife, who had sacrificed so much for his career, who would have had a strong motive in preserving his legacy.
"The Retrieval" comes at you like a haunting slip of a memory, one that writer-director Chris Eska retrieves from a mostly forgotten era in unforgettable ways.
In recent years she has deepened her subtle form of portraiture, writing scripts, commissioning music, assembling fragments of all kinds of footage into films that try to capture the slip-sliding vagaries of memory.
This book focuses on "disrupted and liminal states of consciousness", explains Haddon, on "what happens when consciousness fails or falters, what happens at the outer limits of consciousness – out-of-body experiences and teleportation, multiple personality, sleep and dreams, the slips of language and memory, anaesthesia and death".
"I asked her if it might have been a case of parapraxis—Freud's term for the lapses of memory, slips of the tongue, and other minor suppressions of consciousness that occur in everyday life".It soon becomes clear that a mysteriously moving bookmark is the least of Lawrence's worries.
There are always webs of memory, slips of time and divisions in experience to break the spell of an ordinary world.
In one sequence, Bernstein refers to his misery in anticipation of performance, his fear of memory slips onstage, his feelings of being inadequate as a musician and, therefore, as a person.
For most people, such events slip through the sieve of memory, never to be retrieved.
