That's not the kind of thing one forgets or misremembers or misstates.
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An old man remembers (or misremembers) his encounters with Joyce and Lenin in "Travesties," Tom Stoppard's 1974 comedy, a Roundabout transfer from London's Menier Chocolate Factory (March 29, American Airlines Theatre).
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There was a men's league at the old Sky Rink, on the sixteenth floor of an office building near the West Side rail yards; one misremembers it now, with its steamed-up windows and its hothouse violence, as a kind of puckhead's Plato's Retreat.
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Alberti, Leaving Springfield: 'The Simpsons' and the Possibilities of Oppositional Culture, 2004, p. 247. Homer even attempts to recall Beginning of the End as evidence of his claim, although he misremembers the title as Grasshopperus and the star as Chad Everett (another blond, all-American actor similar to Peter Graves).
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George and Susan go shopping for wedding invitations and George insists on buying the cheapest brand in the store. They run into Kramer, who misremembers Susan's name, prompting Susan to decide he can no longer be an usher at the wedding. She also declines Elaine's demand to be an usher, not wanting any female ushers. Kramer visits a bank which offers anyone $100 if they are not greeted with a "hello".
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The picture has also appeared in recent explorations of postcolonialism, most notably Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children, in which the narrator Saleem Sinai partly misremembers and transforms the meaning of the painting, a copy of which hung on his bedroom wall when he was a child.Neil Ten Kortenaar, "Postcolonial Ekphrasis: Salman Rushdie Gives the Finger Back to the Empire", Contemporary Literature, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Summer, 1997), pp. 232-259.
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11, p. 45. His claim to our attention must rest on his writings; his unprepossessing appearance and ungainly manner in themselves, maintains Hazlitt, drew no audience. Chalmers' follower Irving, on the other hand, gets by on the strength of his towering physique and the novelty of his performances; judging him as a writer (his For the Oracles of God, Four Orations had just gone into a third edition),Hazlitt misremembers the title as Four Orations for the Oracles of God.
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Later, Loon visits the cave alone, and paints animals that he has observed: fighting rhinos and four horses. His lamp goes out and he becomes lost in the dark for four days, but is rescued by Elga and others who take him back out in what he describes as a spiritual rebirth. Back in the camp, he dreams of Thorn's ghost, who vows to haunt him. The novel ends with Loon training his son to be a shaman, and flicking his ears when he misremembers things.
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Originally, King Siva had sent Ruth to slay the imperial red dragon (Mana) who had invaded the land but, instead, he fell in love with her at first sight and married her, running away with her to live in obscurity. :Ruth retired from the dragonslaying business, the couple living in a quiet valley where they raised their daughter, Mink. However, the human-dragon couple have long-since devolved into constant domestic strife as the unemployed adventurer has exposed himself to have also been a skirt-chasing layabout; Lufa misremembers his fame as . He disapproves of Mink's crush on Dick Saucer, mostly because of his ego as a fabled swordsman.
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At one point plastic surgery is conducted on him without his consent. He is forced at another point to pursue careers selling shoes at Zappos or working in a laundromat to impress a woman. His knowledge of film is seemingly deteriorating, as he constantly and surreally misquotes and misremembers many movies. Several other plotlines concern the St. Augustine Monster, a war fought between android clones of Donald Trump and a fictitious fast food restaurant called Slammy's, a murder attempt by Abbott and Costello on a rival comedy team Mudd and Molloy, which is depicted in Cutbirth's film, and several forms of time travel, including by a precognitive meteorologist, clones of other characters (including Trump and a more financially successful B), and a virus invented by a sapient ant living in the distant future.
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On their journey, Steve and Dinah first encounter a group of proto-hippies squatting in MOD- owned buildings on Salisbury Plain (some of this sequence was shot in the evacuated village of Imber) and then an eccentric middle-aged married couple (Yootha Joyce and Robin Bailey) in the opulent surroundings of the Royal Crescent in Bath, Somerset. Steve also plans to visit his boyhood hero, Louie (David Lodge), whose youth club in London's East End he attended, and who has since relocated to Devon. Having fled the police and Zissell's henchmen after a fancy-dress party in the Roman Baths at Bath, Steve and Dinah (with the rest of Steve's gang and the police in pursuit) make their way toward Devon. Louie recognises Dinah instantly because of her TV celebrity, but fails to recognise Steve and misremembers his name, even after being introduced.
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