It can happen. The things we force ourselves to forget, because they are -- too much -- can prove to be some of the most important things ever to happen to us. That is the nature of the beast.
[How many years had he spent, wrong about his mother? About how she had died? About what she had been like, what she had done...]
It is something that those of us with the predisposition to it must live with. That we may at any time have to chase our own memories and fix our eyes upon the uncomfortable truths that lie in the gaps.
[He deals with it, when he comes into the morgue. It was why he chose to work at the morgue: to catch what slipped through the nets of his consciousness, to determine who he killed through cold, empirical science.]
cw discussion of memory repression, murder
It can happen. The things we force ourselves to forget, because they are -- too much -- can prove to be some of the most important things ever to happen to us. That is the nature of the beast.
[How many years had he spent, wrong about his mother? About how she had died? About what she had been like, what she had done...]
It is something that those of us with the predisposition to it must live with. That we may at any time have to chase our own memories and fix our eyes upon the uncomfortable truths that lie in the gaps.
[He deals with it, when he comes into the morgue. It was why he chose to work at the morgue: to catch what slipped through the nets of his consciousness, to determine who he killed through cold, empirical science.]
I am sorry that it happened to you.