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This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 5388, "subject": "My Life With Latro", "messages": 4, "voices": 4, "first": "2009-04-01T03:07:10+00:00", "last": "2009-04-01T15:48:59+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "<60C13FCD-2E16-4539-8BDA-5DD7805A4A5B@io.com>", "from": { "name": "Adam Thornton", "address": "adam at io.com" }, "date": "2009-04-01T03:07:10+00:00", "subject": "(urth) My Life With Latro", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "So, someone important in my life is undergoing a medical treatment \nthat, among its side effects, includes the inability to convert short- \nterm memories to long-term.\n\n(This, by the way, may go some way towards explaining, if not \nexcusing, my current truculence, which Brunians correctly noted; my \nfuse is very short right now.)\n\nIt is *fascinating*. It is also hard as hell to deal with day-to-day \n(in some ways harder than the person who can't remember anything), but \nonce this phase of my life is over and normality has reasserted \nitself, I really look forward to re-reading the _Soldier_ books.\n\nAdam" } ] }, { "message_id": "<44fb53d10903312121y42610b1cq7f5ba15285f7416e@mail.gmail.com>", "from": { "name": "Matthew Keeley", "address": "matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com" }, "date": "2009-04-01T04:21:08+00:00", "subject": "(urth) My Life With Latro", "in_reply_to": "<60C13FCD-2E16-4539-8BDA-5DD7805A4A5B@io.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Adam Thornton wrote:\nSo, someone important in my life is undergoing a medical treatment that,\namong its side effects, includes the inability to convert short-term\nmemories to long-term.\n\n\nIt is *fascinating*. ?It is also hard as hell to deal with day-to-day (in\nsome ways harder than the person who can't remember anything), but once this\nphase of my life is over and normality has reasserted itself, I really look\nforward to re-reading the _Soldier_ books.\n\nAdam" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Best of luck to you and your important person.\n\nPerhaps watch Memento as well?\n\nAnd books on forgetting:\nhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/apr/18/top10s.forgetting\n\n(Looks like they forgot Latro)\n\nAgain, best of luck\n\n-Matt" } ] }, { "message_id": "<307968.52444.qm@web63904.mail.re1.yahoo.com>", "from": { "name": "Fred Kiesche", "address": "recursive_loop at yahoo.com" }, "date": "2009-04-01T14:48:11+00:00", "subject": "(urth) My Life With Latro", "in_reply_to": "<60C13FCD-2E16-4539-8BDA-5DD7805A4A5B@io.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "My father has gotten to the point where short-term and long-term memories are completely intermixed.\n\nReality is intermixed with fantasy. You never know what he is going to say. And forget trying to correct him; he gets very angry when you point out, for example, that he isn't the CEO of A.T. & T.\n\n\nF.P. Kiesche III\n\"Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?\" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.) Blogging at The Lensman's Children and TexasBestGrok!\n\n--- On Tue, 3/31/09, Adam Thornton wrote:\n\nFrom: Adam Thornton \nSubject: (urth) My Life With Latro\nTo: \"The Urth Mailing List\" \nDate: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 11:07 PM\n\nSo, someone important in my life is undergoing a medical treatment that, among\nits side effects, includes the inability to convert short-term memories to\nlong-term.\n\n(This, by the way, may go some way towards explaining, if not excusing, my\ncurrent truculence, which Brunians correctly noted; my fuse is very short right\nnow.)\n\nIt is *fascinating*. It is also hard as hell to deal with day-to-day (in some\nways harder than the person who can't remember anything), but once this\nphase of my life is over and normality has reasserted itself, I really look\nforward to re-reading the _Soldier_ books.\n\nAdam" } ] }, { "message_id": "<6208.67.142.130.39.1238600939.squirrel@brunians.org>", "from": { "name": "brunians at brunians.org", "address": "brunians at brunians.org" }, "date": "2009-04-01T15:48:59+00:00", "subject": "(urth) My Life With Latro", "in_reply_to": "<307968.52444.qm@web63904.mail.re1.yahoo.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Better off than this old immigrant I tended to when I was working in\nnursing: poor bugger thought he was back in the concentration camp.\n\n\n\n\n." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "My father has gotten to the point where short-term and long-term memories\nare completely intermixed.\n\nReality is intermixed with fantasy. You never know what he is going to\nsay. And forget trying to correct him; he gets very angry when you point\nout, for example, that he isn't the CEO of A.T. & T.\n\n\nF.P. Kiesche III\n\"Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble,\nscribble, scribble, eh?\" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being presented with\nVolume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.) Blogging at The\nLensman's Children and TexasBestGrok!\n\n--- On Tue, 3/31/09, Adam Thornton wrote:\n\nFrom: Adam Thornton \nSubject: (urth) My Life With Latro\nTo: \"The Urth Mailing List\" \nDate: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 11:07 PM\n\nSo, someone important in my life is undergoing a medical treatment that,\namong\nits side effects, includes the inability to convert short-term memories to\nlong-term.\n\n(This, by the way, may go some way towards explaining, if not excusing, my\ncurrent truculence, which Brunians correctly noted; my fuse is very short\nright\nnow.)\n\nIt is *fascinating*. It is also hard as hell to deal with day-to-day (in\nsome\nways harder than the person who can't remember anything), but once this\nphase of my life is over and normality has reasserted itself, I really\nlook\nforward to re-reading the _Soldier_ books.\n\nAdam\n_______________________________________________" } ] } ] }