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Buthe had not the tendency of most men in advanced life , to be copious inpersonal reminiscences ; nor did he often speak of the noted writers andpoliticians with whom the chances of earlier years had associated him.Indeed , lacking a turn for observation of character , his formercompanions had passed before him like images in a mirror , giving himlittle knowledge of their inner nature . We have a gauge of the general decline of the public morals , in the condition of Yale College at the accession of President Dwight in 1795 , as described in the reminiscences of Lyman Beecher , then a sophomore . The lobster was instantly surrounded by a halo of pleasing reminiscences , and curiosity about ` the charming young ladies ' diverted his mind from the comical mishap . What the animation in Downtown lacks in expensive fluidity ( TV cartoons being in every case a matter of distracting the viewer from the economy of their creation ) , it makes up for in energetic line and intelligent framing - - it has somewhat the look of an underground comic , appropriately - - and the extravagance of its visual free associations : The show shifts adroitly , and continually , from outer life to inner , from present to past and from snapshot to metaphor , visualizing reminiscences and fantasies , literalizing puns , illuminating inner thoughts and sometimes contradictory subtexts . Greene poured forth the tragic reminiscences of his own life in The Repentance of Robert Greene , M.A ., and his series of ` cony catching ' pamphlets ; Nash lashed himself into the vein of ` lusty Juvenal ' to attack the vices of London and the age in Christs Teares and the Anatomie of Absurditie ; Dekker fancifully set forth the humours of men and things in The Bachelors Banquet , The Guls Horn Book , and a dozen more such pamphlets ; while Painter , Whetstone , Fenton and their brother translators introduced to the contemporary public the popular stories of Italy , France , and Spain .