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feverprophecy

TEXT // animals will gnaw their legs off to escape a trap.

Apr 08, 2011 01:12

Let's say there's something wrong with my memories. Is there anyone here I can go to for help?

(Sit down, Barron.)

to hell with good intentions, [game: lastvoyages], nothing can go wrong with this plan??

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text knowsthepeople April 8 2011, 05:47:39 UTC

Is this a hypothetical, or is something wrong?

text feverprophecy April 8 2011, 05:58:07 UTC

Hypothetical.

[He's not even lying. (Yet?)]

text knowsthepeople April 8 2011, 06:00:56 UTC

Good to know.

What's with the interest?

text feverprophecy April 8 2011, 06:11:30 UTC

Why do I do anything I do? It's just something to talk about.

[Okay, fine, NOW he's lying. But he doesn't care how probably obvious it is. He's counting on Patrick not to push.]

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PRIVATE 'cause Sgt. Howie would tsk and Una might hit him again if he talks about memory fiddling timesbureaucrat April 8 2011, 06:02:02 UTC

What sort of "help" do you have in mind? Retrieval of suppressed memories? Memory partitioning? Alteration? Repression?

Any moderately skilled psychic could hypothetically help with any of those, but some psychics on board might refuse to perform certain types of memory treatment.

PRIVATE feverprophecy April 8 2011, 06:09:11 UTC

Removal, if possible. Repression if not.

I figured that might be the case. It's a delicate kind of subject. Memories make us who we are. But if I'm here, then I'm here to change who I am...

PRIVATE timesbureaucrat April 8 2011, 06:20:05 UTC

I see.

Some people might consider that cheating.

It's not the first time it's been discussed as a possible method of rehabilitation, though. Of course, that inmate was a remarkably intractable case. I believe he came from your world or something very much like it. The Joker.

PRIVATE feverprophecy April 8 2011, 06:47:25 UTC

It's cheating the same way Alexander "cheated" with the Gordian knot.

Wow. The fucking Joker. There's nothing to rehabilitate there.

I'm not that hopeless. I don't need an entire new mind. But forgetting a certain part of my life would cut to the heart of things. It would free me to work on what I suspect to be the real problems.

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[Private] sharpememory April 8 2011, 07:29:50 UTC

Suit yourself, man. But no one can do it like I can.

[Private] feverprophecy April 8 2011, 07:34:23 UTC

That's probably a good thing.

[Private] sharpememory April 8 2011, 07:40:09 UTC

Depends on your point of view. It's kind of like community service in a way. It doesn't cost me anything, they don't remember. Everyone wins.

[Private] feverprophecy April 8 2011, 07:47:52 UTC

And you're just the selfless kind of individual to provide this service, is that right?

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Private greatlightother April 8 2011, 10:54:15 UTC

That depends on what you want. And why you want it.

Private feverprophecy April 8 2011, 17:44:19 UTC

There's a part of my life I can't get away from because the people involved are on this ship. I've tried to avoid them, but our relationship fucks things up when I try to think about changing. In time, maybe, I will get over this. But if I forgot them altogether, maybe I could be someone new.

Private greatlightother April 8 2011, 20:00:30 UTC

Memory manipulation isn't that asy. Without those memories, you might be someone much worse.

Private feverprophecy April 8 2011, 22:10:38 UTC

I don't think there's anything easy about what I proposed.

Removing those memories won't make me "better" or "worse". It would make me someone different.

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video canistricari April 8 2011, 16:40:51 UTC

You could go to me.

text feverprophecy April 8 2011, 17:45:03 UTC

Pass.

videoooo canistricari April 8 2011, 17:47:11 UTC

So quick to judge! I like that. I could fix your broken mind, boy!

text feverprophecy April 8 2011, 17:53:54 UTC

I know better than to trust anything that smiles like that.

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