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Remembrance of Things Past

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Remembrance of Things Past
records the decay of a society. [Fr. Lit.: Haydn & Fuller, 630]
See : Decadence

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It's only a small gesture, a token remembrance of things past, but city officials have come up with $240,000 to study transportation alternatives in this heavily congested, low-income community.
Clearly, whatever peacetime happenings and ambitions and hopes constitute the novel's soul, as it were, the resonances of war cannot be entirely erased, or forgotten even years later, for somehow the war revisits human consciousness and relationships in the visible forms of remembrance of things past.
Parked next to the "grave," the Ford was an assertion of life in death, a remembrance of things past with a blunt and brutish quality of presence.
 
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