Young Jim, his father, and the mattress (p. 491)
I remember thinking the bearing-down action looked very much like emergency compression of a heart patient’s chest. I remember my father’s tomato juice had grains of pepperish material floating on the surface.
Context
What four decades of retention actually preserved: the grains of pepper on the tomato juice, the CPR likeness of the father kneading the mattress. The memoir's "I remember" attaches to trivia with forensic clarity while the afternoon's emotional content goes unstated everywhere — hyper-retention of the sensory surface as the visible half of a suppression.