Just In Case

Alistair Young

Jul 24, 2012

“Here’s what I need redacted: I made arrangements, yesterday, to have a copy of my mind-state archived at Site Hácek. I need to not remember doing that, and I need to not remember needing to not remember doing that. My husband and I staged an argument last night; use that as my reason to have come here and had redactions done. Also, I need a subconscious compulsion implanted to make an extranet search for vacuum-fluffed meringue recipes at least once a week from now on. And all of that, as I said, under guaranteed-amnesic protocols so there’s neither record nor memory of me doing it. Clear?”

– forgotten in a mnemonic therapist’s

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