“Armed with memory, the individual is able to deal with the present moment so that it need not create a ‘violent disruption’ in his consciousness. But memory is unfortunately an uncertain ally. By enveloping objects in the present with associations, memory can produce a state of confusion in which ‘nothing is any longer one thing’; indeed, when the associations invoke powerful emotions, the present may be obliterated completely by the past…. ‘Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after’”