I happen to have an inside tip on an article that's going to appear in next Sunday's New York Times magazine, dealing with neuroscientists' efforts to mitigate the effects of traumatic memories. I haven't read the thing, but in confluence with Eternal Sunshine, it might lead to questions about the narrative nature of the mind... can any one memory be removed, altered, or added without changing the entire brain function? And if that's the case, is brain functioning a narrative, or a program?

Durr... if that's NOT the case, even. If it IS the case, then we have a Kaufman-esque brain-as-database situation. (Thanks for that read on Eternal Sunshine, btw... now I have an organizing principle for my next viewing. Yes, there will be two, minimum.)

*cough* And by "next Sunday" I meant "the Sunday after next at the time when I said it" (i.e. 4/4).