> > [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... I would imagin even the most terse of journals would become unwieldly in a matter of centuries, to say nothing of the need to keep a whole slew of languages in memory ("Damn, if I could only remember how to read hieroglyphics, Etrusian, and Sumarian"). Still, it makes for an interesting puzzle. _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail