the memory of a one-year-old

The late professor Elizabeth Mann Borgese delivered an honored lecture (Nexus or some name like that) in 1999, entitled The Years of My Life, which was included in the Ocean Year Book volume 18 (2002 or shortly after; because the volume momerizes her, who died in 2002).

Professor Borgese opened the lecture by recalling her memories as a kid of one year old (oh my!), when her father, the great German writer Thomas Mann, with Elizabeth on his lap being fed with whatever food she remembered but I don't, received a call about the death of her great grandmother. The one-year-old, yet unable to speak, conceived a picture of death as something analogous to the stopping-of-work of a clock.

Professor Borgese went on to tell a story when she was three years old ... That's still well beyond me. Shame on me! (No wonder she's a professor.)