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a museum you build, badly, where every exhibit moves overnight while you sleep.
means The act of remembering something, or the specific memory itself, summoned back into the mind after it had slipped away.
from From Latin recolligere, 'to gather again,' built from re- ('again') and colligere ('to collect') — the same colligere that gives us 'collect,' from com- ('together') and legere ('to gather, pick up, read'). So a recollection is literally a re-gathering: the scattered fragments of a memory picked up off the floor and assembled once more, never quite in their original order.
- rebuilt each time
- Memories are reconstructed, not replayed, every recall.
- editable
- Each remembering can quietly rewrite the original.
- false confidence
- Vivid memories are often the most wrong.
- context cue
- Same room or smell reopens locked recall.
- telescoping
- Old events feel closer in time than they are.
for instance
proust's madeleine — involuntary memory triggered by dipping a pastry in tea in in search of lost time