Charmian wrote on Sun, 3 Oct 2004 10:44:03 -1000 >I thought the memory problem was caused by Vlad being hit with the >spell in Dragon? Cracks and Shards! Am I reading something between the text that is not there again? Or are we writing about different memory problems? Dragon paperback Chapter 1 "MEMORY IS LIKE A WATCHACALLIT" page 15. "I woke up one morning remembering something I'd forgotten the day before. I'd been having a one-sided conversation with a metal box, much as I'm doing now...but then, the morning after I'd finished, I realized what I'd forgotten, and my first thought was that someone had been playing with my memories. My second thought was that, if this were true, I was going to hurt someone. My third thought was to consider, if someone was repressing my memories, who that someone had to be. This was chilling, and it brought me fully awake, which led to one of those sessions of "How much was a dream?"... Vlad says "As you approach the Falls, do you remember there being a large statue." Loiosh says "Sure, Boss where Morrolan performed that embarrassing ritual. What about it?" ... "That was then, and it illustrates what a tricky thing memory is: I had forgotten something important that had happened just days before, yet now, more than three years later, I remember waking up and talking to Loiosh about it. Interesting, isn't it?" The Paths of the Dead paperback Chapter 29 page 319 "larger-than-life sculpture of a man"..."Kieron the Conqueror" No mention of this sculpture in Book of Taltos, Taltos Chapter 10, page 100. Two sessions with a metal box. One for Taltos and one for Dragon. Taltos finished with a large statue and embarrassing ritual missing >from the one-sided conversation. The next morning, Vlad remembers what happened days before. Taltos doesn't get corrected because Vlad does not know how to do that or does not care. Three years later, Dragon session with the metal box is taking place and Vlad talks about how he could remember talking to Loiosh three years ago; but when Taltos was finished, he forgot about what happened just days before. I think that if this memory problem was caused by the spell in Dragon, Vlad would not have thought someone was repressing his memories. Bye. Linda G.