vaguely-told

Updated: August 25, 2026

I cannot clearly distinguish what is purely memory and what a dream, or dream-memory, of these olden days. Memory is like tradition; one does not remember the first impression, but only the memory of it, and who knows how much that was already distorted; and so the picture changes from year to year, like a vaguely-told tale. My childhood days fell towards the middle of the nineteenth century.

Frederik van Eeden - The Bride of Dreams