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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 timeMemories are reconstructed, not replayed, every recall.
editableEach remembering can quietly rewrite the original.
false confidenceVivid memories are often the most wrong.
context cueSame room or smell reopens locked recall.
telescopingOld events feel closer in time than they are.