[lit-ideas] Re: 'Eternal Sunshine' drug selectively erases memories

  • From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:23:36 -0400

Torture isn't the point of the erasing in the article. The point was to hide the crime by erasing all memory of it.

I then wondered about the threat of erasing as a torture technique.

Ursula,
just now reading your CNN article about memory.
My favourite part is the luxury of having a nomenclator to supply you with the names of people you meet...

Julie Krueger wrote:
And how does that, then, make it "torture"?
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