Dragaera

Dragaeran memory

Tue Feb 11 09:07:20 PST 2003


On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Ruhlen, Rachel Louise (UMC-Student) wrote:

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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrew Lias [mailto:anrwlias at hotmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 10:51 AM
> > To: philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU; davids at kithrup.com
> > Cc: dragaera at dragaera.info
> > Subject: Re: SPOILER for _Dragon_...what's up with Vlad, again?
> >
> > [1] I've occasionally toyed with the notion of writing a
> > story about an
> > immortal whose memory capacity (on the whole, with certain
> > memories going
> > back further, others fading quicker) is only two centuries.
> >
> If the immortal learned to write things down...
> Rachel

Could he trust himself?  Anyone see Momento?  Also note Wolfe's
Soldier in the Mist - the main character has no memory of events
previous to the day and uses a scroll as memory.