The past never stands alone. If it did, it would never exist. We remember, and this is actually our connecting what we remembersomething that reappears in our headwith the contents of our heads in our bodies right now.

Because of this, people never remember everything completely. The past reappears in the form honed by the present. To remember is actually to go along a broken course.

Probably this is what happened with Malin Kundang. In the famous