Last weekend, in a sad, sweet remembrance of Kerouac, who lived in Northport between 1958 and 1964, a procession of readers recited from his 1962 novel, "Big Sur," before a full house in Northport's village hall.
But this isn't a sweet remembrance; the memories are tinged with bitterness and sorrow.
For Mrs. Walton, owner of Sweet Remembrances, a mail order business, the one-of-a-kind Christmas dolls are part of a whole line of other hand-stitched dolls, jointed teddy bears, papier-mache figures, folk art, needlework and restored carousel horses.
Pictures hung on the wall of the ones who had recently lost their lives not sweet remembrances or anything like that, just photos from when they had first come to Missouri, with the date they arrived and the date they passed.
But each of us would go through bruising two-decade-long marriages, and we felt that sweet spark of remembrance and renewal upon meeting again in middle age.
That sweet note of remembrance was coupled by Kelly's brawny, bald guest performer, Dudley Saunders, who sang "What Rats Are We," his elegy for a longtime friend who'd passed away.
The book's last sequence, Lucinda's Way, is the sweetest – a fond remembrance of a lovely sounding marriage, one in which she never threw away a scrap of his writing "without kissing it first", and in which Reid, as he puts it, was "second always to you, the dashing heroine".
Similarly ambiguous posts had begun to fill my news feed with sweet, non-specific remembrances of a person I barley knew.
Although sweeter passages intervene, suggesting remembrance of happier times, the mvmt's ultimate message is never in doubt.
SONNET NO. 157 When to the sessions of sweet silent bong I summon up remembrance of doobs past, Methinks I trounce his worship Tommy Chong, For my weed game shall not soon be outclassed.
Many of Real Estate's songs are ambivalent remembrances of a comfortable suburban upbringing in "sweet Jersey, back where I long to be"; they swim in rippling, overlapping, reverbed guitar lines that somehow bridge the Eagles and Television, simultaneously unhurried and tensile.
