[UA] Would you like gas with those fries?

[Liam Astley]

From: "Greg Stolze" <holycrow at mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: [UA] Would you like gas with those fries?

> So you pictured me as a muscular black man with a band-aid on the back of
> his neck?  Weird.

heh. no, but i seem to remember some thread on this list where people were
saying they'd imagined you to be some muscular black guy (and michael
pondsmith to be a preppy white guy).
maybe the band aid, though.

> I believe the technical name for this is "memory confabulation" -- a
number
> of similar experiences get compressed into one archetypal 'memory' that
> gets modified for different concrete circumstances.

yeah, that's sort of what i was thinking of. while i'd like to believe that
i could invent entire albums, books, films, comics etc in my head when
dreaming, i think it's more likely that i just remember having read/listened
to them. that's why i can never actually remember any details.


liam


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