1984
What were the survivors of the ancient world able to remember?
things
things
The things remembered by the ancient ones were were the memories and emotions considered useless.
They remembered a million useless things, a quarrel with a workmate, a hunt for a lost bicycle pump, the expression on a long-dead sister’s face, the swirls of dust on a windy morning seventy years ago: but all the relevant facts were outside the range of their vision.
1984