# My Life With Latro *The Urth list — 4 messages, 4 voices, 01 Apr 2009* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Adam Thornton *01 Apr 2009, 03:07* So, someone important in my life is undergoing a medical treatment that, among its side effects, includes the inability to convert short- term memories to long-term. (This, by the way, may go some way towards explaining, if not excusing, my current truculence, which Brunians correctly noted; my fuse is very short right now.) It is *fascinating*. It is also hard as hell to deal with day-to-day (in some ways harder than the person who can't remember anything), but once this phase of my life is over and normality has reasserted itself, I really look forward to re-reading the _Soldier_ books. Adam --- ### Matthew Keeley *01 Apr 2009, 04:21 · in reply to Adam Thornton* > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Adam Thornton wrote: > So, someone important in my life is undergoing a medical treatment that, > among its side effects, includes the inability to convert short-term > memories to long-term. > > > It is *fascinating*. ?It is also hard as hell to deal with day-to-day (in > some ways harder than the person who can't remember anything), but once this > phase of my life is over and normality has reasserted itself, I really look > forward to re-reading the _Soldier_ books. > > Adam Best of luck to you and your important person. Perhaps watch Memento as well? And books on forgetting: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/apr/18/top10s.forgetting (Looks like they forgot Latro) Again, best of luck -Matt --- ### Fred Kiesche *01 Apr 2009, 14:48 · in reply to Adam Thornton* My father has gotten to the point where short-term and long-term memories are completely intermixed. Reality 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. F.P. Kiesche III "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! --- On Tue, 3/31/09, Adam Thornton wrote: From: Adam Thornton Subject: (urth) My Life With Latro To: "The Urth Mailing List" Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 11:07 PM So, someone important in my life is undergoing a medical treatment that, among its side effects, includes the inability to convert short-term memories to long-term. (This, by the way, may go some way towards explaining, if not excusing, my current truculence, which Brunians correctly noted; my fuse is very short right now.) It is *fascinating*. It is also hard as hell to deal with day-to-day (in some ways harder than the person who can't remember anything), but once this phase of my life is over and normality has reasserted itself, I really look forward to re-reading the _Soldier_ books. Adam --- ### brunians at brunians.org *01 Apr 2009, 15:48 · in reply to Fred Kiesche* Better off than this old immigrant I tended to when I was working in nursing: poor bugger thought he was back in the concentration camp. . > My father has gotten to the point where short-term and long-term memories > are completely intermixed. > > Reality 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. > > > F.P. Kiesche III > "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! > > --- On Tue, 3/31/09, Adam Thornton wrote: > > From: Adam Thornton > Subject: (urth) My Life With Latro > To: "The Urth Mailing List" > Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 11:07 PM > > So, someone important in my life is undergoing a medical treatment that, > among > its side effects, includes the inability to convert short-term memories to > long-term. > > (This, by the way, may go some way towards explaining, if not excusing, my > current truculence, which Brunians correctly noted; my fuse is very short > right > now.) > > It is *fascinating*. It is also hard as hell to deal with day-to-day (in > some > ways harder than the person who can't remember anything), but once this > phase of my life is over and normality has reasserted itself, I really > look > forward to re-reading the _Soldier_ books. > > Adam > _______________________________________________ ---