At the service, the fond intimate memories of Mr. Falwell's old friends mingled with grand assessments of his legacy offered by his political allies.

But as Mr. Staples's narrative makes clear, events take on a second life when memory and wisdom mingle to give meaning and purpose to the past.

For them, ho-ho-ho means one last hurrah: the last visit, before locking up until next spring, to a place where memories of summers past mingle with promises of times to come.

Then I closed them again, and drifted into a doze in which memories of the day mingled with inchoate fragments of dreams.

Old memories and new ones mingled powerfully in him, evoking devastating feelings.

Most of them - they are the transcripts of deliberations at rabbinical academies for most of a thousand years - are aggadah, a magical rabbinic mode of thought in which myth, theology, memory, poetry and superstition robustly mingle.

His memories of Masses here and Masses across the street at St Alphonsus mingled completely.

He let his memories mingle with those of Karatek and drift, simply drift, out over the immense, clear horizon.

Laurana murmured, vivid memories of Sturm's death mingling with the shrieks of the dying dragon.

The memory, with its almost surreal overtones, mingles with the idyll of his childhood, as those elements also merge in his books.