good, my memory isn’t totally destroyed

My hosts in Malibu assure me that there’s a very good reason for why I had no memory at all of the Getty Villa– since my 1994 visit there it was torn down and rebuilt in a completely different layout. Apparently it was closed for several years in the process.

Nonetheless, I still have no vivid memory of what the old one looked like, and 16 years isn’t that long.