and was haunted and obsessed by them, but putting them down very accurately. hi there 1whsts gist of sentece and "put down"meaning in thi sentence? Here again it was sort of a happy accident that we met. The museum in San Francisco, the Exploratorium, had an exhibit on memory, and he was billed as “The Memory Artist.” They had fifty of his paintings there, of the little village where he’d been born in Italy, Pontito, and, next to these, photos taken by the Exploratorium’s photographer in exactly the same places, wherever possible, as the paintings were done from. Now the resemblance was uncanny. But Franco had not seen his village for thirty years or more, and this in fact was entirely the village as it was before he was nine years old. And so he was somehow retrieving apparently very, very, early memories, and was haunted and obsessed by them, but putting them down very accurately. And this whole