The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression.
It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.