In Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic History, did we read an account of centaurs attacking a flying city? No, but we did read two memories of this. See Aesgil IV.
In HG Wells' The Time Machine, did we read an account of an organism like a tentacled football flopping on a beach on the dying Earth in the Further Vision? Yes, but the Time Traveler momentarily thinks that he has imagined it, thus making us think that we have misremembered it when we reread the book. See A Few More Details In The Time Machine.
Memories are elusive and some authors play tricks with them.
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Kaor, Paul!
Or some people could have their minds and memories meddled with for maleficent reasons, as we see Aycharaych doing to Jaan's in THE DAY OF THEIR RETURN or (possibly) to Kossara Vymezal's in A KNIGHT OF GHOSTS AND SHADOWS.
Ad astra! Sean
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