[lit-ideas] Re: 'Eternal Sunshine' drug selectively erases memories
- From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:18:42 -0500
Another way of saying it .... (occurred to me of course the moment I hit
"send") -- it seems intrinsically problematic to threaten someone with
something which they know they wouldn't be aware of if it were to happen
.... another movie springs to mind which I think came out about the same
time as Eternal Sunshine -- 50 First Dates. My kids wanted to see it and I
expected it to be slapstick cave-man humour. It turned out (in my viewing)
to be a surprisingly tender and thoughtful (though sometimes the cave-man
slapstick stuff did enter, but hey, they had to make a buck) piece on just
that .... awareness of one's life. If you saw it, it might be fun to talk
about the gal's experience from her perspective.
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Re. the nomenclator, I second that emotion.
>
> Re. the torture -- there's still something that's niggling at me as though
> it's a logical fallacy -- if one is threatened with the erasure of one's
> memory, and one realizes that w/ that erasure one would not be aware of the
> erasure, does that not deflate the threat?
>
> Btw -- I absolutely loved Eternal Sunshine...
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 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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