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Is there a certain quote, phrase or perhaps parable from a childhood story that your mind inadvertantly recollects at certain instances?

Asked by seazen_ (4801points) April 18th, 2011

What prompted this thought was something I keep thinking of, nay, pops into my mind at certain instances, as if I had read but that one book and recall just that one anecdote in it. It’s that powerful.

(I just looked it up and couldn’t believe it had been written at the end of the 19th century – I had thought it was quite current – when I read it in the 60’s – here it is: This is a wiki link, that’s all.

There is a scenario in which the boy, who has run off to join the circus (literally), buys a bag of peanuts from a vendor…

I am, at times, suddenly reminded of this when buying something – and it is so powerful – you’d think I’d experienced it myself.

Do you have something like that?

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