Ganin's re nunciation of Mary might actually be an affirmation of art as it weaves the tangled strands of memory: She exists..
First, the author demonstrates that the "unspeakable" racial violence committed at the Crater has left a particular and persistent controversy that has made it difficult to reconcile the various strands of memory about the battle (32).
The most vivid strand of "Photographic Memory" is Mr. McElwee's changing relationship with his son, Adrian, now in his 20s.
In the opening section he describes the death of his father in piercing detail, anchoring the exigent crisis with strands of earlier memories ("Appearing in his car on Sunday mornings / Impatient for the whole world to wake up, / He'd arrive for lunch before breakfast") that lend individual texture to this most commonplace of tragedies.
But he, too, acknowledges an idealisation in his spinning of memory strands into gilded nostalgia: "The future's made of coal, the past is made of gold".
Though this is structural artifice, it is also psychological honesty, and the echo-chamber approach becomes even more candid and affecting when the writer introduces a third strand: memories of the period in her teens when she was shuttled between her divorced parents' new residences.
In April, Khan's Gnosis displayed traditional Kathak skills with a mesmerising contemporary twist, and later in the year his Vertical Road wove haunting strands of narrative around the theme of memory.
A central strand of the work depicts a memory half remembered and repeated, which changes in both detail and tone depending on how the speaker is feeling.
And Iraq? Opposition to the invasion was at least partly down to a strand of the left's collective memory that Cohen hardly mentions: the long history of opposition to colonialism that focused on the British empire and the serial US actions in which democratic values were conveniently forgotten.
The Judson strand of modern dance is like free verse with lots of memory of daily life but none of sonnet form or terza rima.
