[LMB] What Simon Illyan hopes you never think of

[Richard Suitor]

On 12/5/06, David McMillan <skyefire at skyefire.org> wrote:

> > 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.  :)

Well, there is textev that this was tried on many and only Simon
survived with his sanity.

Maybe he's tone deaf.  No, he accompanied Alys to the opera, wasn't it?

I think it is control, not fortitude.  For that device from hell to be
useful, one has to have as iron control over retrieval as one has in a
good DB front end.  I suppose Simon could *concentrate*.  Thereby
selecting (or suppressing) what was retrieved.

I'm afraid I would go the way of Sherman.

Richard