Nancy Kress nous explique qu'elle est la métaphore qu'elle préfère concernant la mémoire et comment elle en est venu à choisir le thème de cette nouvelle.
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Pour lire la nouvelle Eliot Wrote.Memory, and metaphors for memory, are a running theme throughout this story. What would you say your favorite metaphor for memory is?
I’m inclined to think of computer files as a metaphor for memory, because our minds “file” concepts by category and because files can be cross-indexed, as can memory. However, I didn’t use that in the story because it’s too much of a cliché. Also, Eliot is given to more imaginative metaphors than I am—even though I created him. Fiction is odd in that way.
How did you come up with the idea for Selective Memory Obliteration Neural Re-Routing?
It’s an old idea in SF. Philip K. Dick used it, the movie “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” used it, as have many other works. The point in fiction is sometimes to give a fresh spin to an old idea. It would be impossible to come up with a brand-new, fresh-out-if-the-box idea for every single story.
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