my chemical romance
The memory-scrambling drugs are very weird. I was in surgery for the better part of an hour, but I recollect it as a sort of muddled series of highlights lasting no more than a couple of minutes, and including a vague sense that at some point having local anaesthetic injected was painful, but no actual memory of the pain. Which is, in fact, exactly
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(I had a biopsy done about a year ago, and I remember being vaguely surprised at how wrung out it made me feel--it really was only a teeny piece of me. Oh wait, an actual piece of my living flesh scolloped out. Right. No wonder, I suppose.)
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Also on account of having grown up in sunny climes I had a bit of skin biopsied a few years back, and was quite astonished at the body's strenuous objection to having pea-sized lumps removed. I should have gone to a plastic surgeon to avoid the notable leg scar it's left.
The memory drugs sound like something out of PK Dick. Interesting, but reliable selective memory excision sounds like a scary skill set in the wrong hands ;/
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-26783490
sixth pic!
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