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Title: The Last Conversation Authors: Paul Tremblay Category:supplementals Number of Highlights: 7 Date: 2025-06-29 Last Highlighted: **
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Its purpose was to punish and break its prisoners. You quoted a prison guard named James Hardie, who once wrote of the treadmill: âmonotonous steadiness, and not its severity, which constitutes its terror.â
To forget is to lose something that was once yours, that was once of yourself. But how could one lose something as expansive as an ocean in a dusty corner of oneâs mind? What if, instead, to forget is to open a door to a void; the memory is not retrievable because it is not there, was never there.
Tags:perception
There is a sense of time having passed, however, which implies your consciousness had enough awareness within that missing time to be aware of itself. You were you, and you are now you.
âI wish you would ask me what I remember about specific events or images as opposed to the general âWhat else do you remember?â It is difficult to answer that nonspecific question.â
âAs weâve discussed, thereâs been a global pandemic and weâve been isolated. Do you trust me, ______?â
You keep saying âsoon.â I donât think you and I share that wordâs meaning.â
She climbs into the bed but remains over the covers, not inside them with you. She drapes a hand over your shoulder and promises to stay until you fall asleep. You close your eyes, but you can still see the orange light on the wall.