| The seat on the left has held Roosevelt the friend of labor, rememberer of the forgotten man, reformer and crusader. |
|
| Participants were told that the experimenter was interested in how people decide whether a memory is either true or based on a false event that the rememberer thinks happened. |
|
| The result feels, to the rememberer, just as authentic as the real thing. What is not yet known is how this process works neurologically. |
|
| Remembering in this way — nurturing a flame, not a grudge — elevates both the memory and the rememberer. |
|
| Generally, the best recalled information tends to be central to the event, meaningful to the rememberer, and thought about in the years since the incident. |
|
| Barnes calls himself Pat's principal rememberer and this is a memorial to her, a book that may, in outline, look complex but is at some level incredibly simple. |
|
| He owns up to thoughts of suicide and explains the reason for resisting: he is his wife's chief rememberer, and if he kills himself he will be killing her too. |
|
