

MEMORIES 



Down the Brook. 



.A COUNTRYMAN shut up in the heart of a great city. 

 Yes, an anomaly. But it has happened before, and 

 will happen again. 



What is left him ? What but memory ? Think. for 

 one moment of this subtle thing. Not a physiologist 

 of them all can explain its methods or say even, 

 "Here it lies." "White matter," "grey matter," 

 " molecular changes " ? Are they laughing at us ? 

 Where have they all been stored, these facts of years 

 ago? Unsuspected, hidden away, keeping quiet, 

 evading all detection, not to be apprehended by any 

 conscious grasp. But there all the while — alive, 

 potential, to start, perhaps years hence, into life, and 

 challenge us once again with the problem of memory 

 that laughs at time and space-: memory that is never 

 really far away, but sometimes drives us, sometimes 

 follows where we call ; that may be commanded but 



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