> That's a bit different (if you don't mind me
> taking your statement more earnestly than you
> intended :-) For example, it's interesting how
> you can remember having written a longish
> message or letter, but if you expend serious
> effort in trying to recall *exactly* what you
> wrote, it's extremely difficult -- even though
> it was YOU who just wrote it a few minutes
> ago. If we had the ability to recall
> everything we said or saw perfectly, with
> eidetic accuracy, then the question of
> whether "memory is true" would never come up.

Wolfspirit, your posts always make me think of some piece of fiction I've read, but I can never remember what the titles are. Here we go again.

It's a short science-fiction story about a rather average young man who becomes the test subject of a radical new drug that alters the brain and gradually allows him perfect, unfettered access to ALL his memories. Anything he had ever seen or heard (even hushed background conversations that he wasn't even listening to at the time) he was able to recall, perfectly.

He gradually became more and more arrogant and began thinking of himself as superior to everyone around him. He was able to use his perfect memory to recall things that no one else knew and blackmail people, etc. It got him into to trouble in the end, but his fiancee rescued him.

I wish I could remember the names, authors, etc. of these stories you make me think of.

Gri"needs that drug"shny