Dragaera

Dragaeran memory

Tue Feb 11 09:11:29 PST 2003

On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 12:07 PM, Philip Hart wrote:

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> 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?
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>>> [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.
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>> If the immortal learned to write things down...
>> Rachel
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> 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.

Does Vlad trust himself? I mean, does he go to sleep fearing someday 
he'll have a dream about being an assassin again and end up with a 
knife in his side in the morning?