Associative thinking

Today’s One Big Happy:

In trying to recover a memory, we are all inclined to wander from one idea to an associated idea, sometimes losing track of the point of the original mental search — but some people are especially given to this kind of associative thinking, as here.

Ingrid Bergman, by the way.

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