[LMB] What Simon Illyan hopes you never think of

[David McMillan]

Doctor Nightfall wrote:
> 
>> From: James <cessnadriver at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: "Discussion of the works of Lois McMaster 
>> Bujold."<lois-bujold at lists.herald.co.uk>
>> To: "Discussion of the works of Lois McMaster 
>> Bujold."<lois-bujold at lists.herald.co.uk>
>> Subject: Re: [LMB] What Simon Illyan hopes you never think of
>> Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 21:37:20 -0800
>>
>> You have to get the sunday version. Here's a handy link for everyone 
>> wondering:
>>
>> http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/shermans.asp?date=20061203
> 
> NOW I understand...
> 
> *picks himself up, still giggling*
> 
> Simon Illyan has an iPod, thanks to the old Emperor...

	While Herself didn't touch on this, think about it for a moment: 
Simon's chip almost undoubtedly could do an IPod's work, as a 
sub-feature.  Certainly Simon could recall any song he'd ever heard just 
by thinking of it.
	Now consider the implications during "Memory" -- if the degrading chip 
had any tendency to follow particularly strong memory threads, and had 
perfect recall of every "stuck in your head" fad song for the past 30+ 
years... oh dear me.  And Simon wasn't begging everyone to kill him?  My 
estimation of his fortitude just went up quite a bit.  :)