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[malleableworld]

I hope no one's too sick. That curse, yesterday, seemed to catch a lot of people when they were feeling terrible about themselves a little bit off-guard

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[misterblackbird]

You know, I've been told that people can sometimes exchange memories for something else with the 'deities'.

[malleableworld]

I heard that too.

It's a little bit distressing.

[misterblackbird]

It is, indeed. Although at least it seems a voluntary surrendering of those memories.

I don't intend to take them up on that offer.

[malleableworld]

Well, even then...what if that's the memory that makes you...compassionate? Or what if it's the one that reminds you how important your family is, or was?

I don't know if people can see the consequences of losing a memory.

[misterblackbird]

Yes, and I've seen more than a few complicated situations thanks to those losses. I don't think people quite realise the consequences.

[malleableworld]

I don't know. It if were up to me, my memory means much more than my life.

[misterblackbird]

It means that much to you? Little as I'd want to give up my memories, I'm not sure I'd value them more than my life.

[malleableworld]

Yes, it means that much. I'm not sure why.

I guess that varies from person to person. Memory, and all.

[misterblackbird]

Yes, I think it must vary from person to person. Though there are some memories I'd never part with, I know that.

[malleableworld]

Those would be the memories that people want you to part with.

No one wants memories of you eating breakfast, I mean.

[misterblackbird]

Yes, I understand what you mean.

[malleableworld]

Either way.

I think memory and personality are linked, I guess is what I'm trying to say. I'd rather be myself than just be alive. If I didn't have my memory, I don't know if I would be the same person.

[misterblackbird]

Though you might not remember the kind of person you were before. And where would you be then?

[malleableworld]

Well, but who I would turn into would be a lie. Even if I didn't remember it.

[misterblackbird]

It doesn't seem as though you'd be a lie to me. It would only be a change. That which you'd done--giving up a memory, for example--would be because of your temperament. Whatever you became, even not remembering something, would still be yourself.

It seems to me that it's more like creating a new memory than the sort of loss you see it to be.

[malleableworld]

Well, I can see your point.

I just don't like the idea, of my memory changing.