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Sometimes, they are more distraction than narrative thread and the need to return to them often bogs the author down; there are, after all, only so many ways to describe the feel of carved wood and only so many times such an image can be made to work as a symbol of patinated memory without the reader feeling that a point is being laboured.
This is how the company management makes its stakeholders aware of the passing of time and how this playful occasion becomes an important symbol of organisational memory and its relationship to time.
It has never seemed entirely a coincidence that in the years since 9/11 the dead have maintained a heightened presence on dramatic television, haunting and comforting and emboldening the living as ghosts and dreams and symbols of inextinguishable memory.
"It is deeply disturbing that one of America's most powerful symbols of the memory of the Holocaust was selected as the site of the attack just days after President Obama accompanied Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel to the Buchenwald death camp," they said.
With Kempenaers, the subjects were the monuments themselves, in all of their contradictions as forgotten symbols of collective memory.
Lists of symbols are stored whenever possible in a compressed form of up to four symbols per byte of memory.
It was perhaps a sign of growth and a symbol of the fading memory of the recent six-game losing streak that the Knicks could again look upward in the standing.
His symbol of overwhelming collective memories glittered in the sunlight.
A condo in Florida offers no escape for the retired couple who are tracked down by their deranged daughter, Debby, the tormenting symbol of their haunted memories and of their failure as parents.
For others, the forest is a dense weave of symbol and memory.
