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MEMORY

                                             February 23, 2010


   Most of us know intellectually
   about the problems with eye-witnesses
   and the possiblity that any memory
   might be false...

   Until recently, it was a rare experience
   to really be confronted with a false             Any difference between
   memory of your own, a vidid image in your        your account and
   head that you can confirm never really           another's is easily
   happened.                                        dismissed. Sure, it's
                                                    possible you
      Cheap, ubiquitous,                            might have it wrong,
      privately owned video                         but really you always
      recordings change                             suspect the problem is
      this for me.                                  on the other side...

      Twice now-- that I
      remember-- I've
      re-watched recordings
      to find that I have a
      clear visual memory                In the Nero Wolfe series (the
      of something I've                  recent one, with Maury Chaykin &
      never actually seen.               Timothy Hutton), in "The
                                         Doorbell Rang", I have a clear
                                         impression of a grim smile on
  Still another case:                    the face of Saul Panzer as he
                                         emerges from the crate--
    ALPHAVILLE
                                            In actuality, they decided to
                                            play it suffocated and exhausted.

                                         In the "Macross 7" series,
                                         I remember Bassara flying into
                                         a battle zone, peering over
                                         his glasses with a crazed smile,
                                         the field of view canted over
                                         45 degrees to stage right.

                                            These elements occur in many
                                            different places, but never
                                            together in this image I thought
                                            I'd seen re-used in several
                                            episodes...

                                                        (I'll need to
                                                         think of another
                                                         T-shirt idea.)




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