An idea I like better is that he measured the distance in terms of paces, and later misremembered the number as counting feet. |
The trouble was that I misremembered how it had all started and found myself asking Grandage about his childhood bed-wetting. |
The fact that a particular respondent uses a placebo in a clinical context is not likely to be misremembered, however, even if the frequency is misjudged. |
Part of the reason he is giving away the collection is because of failing health, so it's possible he just misremembered the place the professor was calling from. |
But Wilson may have been told differently at the time, or may have misremembered the story in a way that tended to magnify his own importance. |
But he has assimilated at least one major lesson of her often misremembered career. |