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10/24/09(Sat)19:45 No.6417522On the Subject of Memory: in the passage to Hell, most people lose much of their memory - some consider this a final cruel touch by Lucifer, punishing mortals for sins unremembered, while others believe it to be an act of God, part of the necessary cleansing that must take place before forgiveness. Still others believe that chunks of their memories were stolen by things from beyond Heaven or Hell, creatures with neither form nor function, throbbing eyes and anglerfish teeth in a sea of impossible angles, while more claim it is an (un)natural phenomenon, as though their ability to recollect was torn off on some jutting stone spire on the Long Way Down and remains there still, waving like a shredded banner.
An interesting correlation noted by practicing Psyentysts is that it is often those souls most noted by new arrivals to be famous or well-remembered who themselves possess the most memories, some even going so far as to claim that they've had the faded sections of their past restored by a renaissance in the Living Land. Saladin, for example, has stated that he remembers all of his life that he might have when living - something unlikely in the extreme for Joe Bloggs, an average man who would be lucky to remember much more than his name, though his tastes and instincts would remain with him in the afterlife.
Hrafnkell, a scholar of some renown in the Frozen Township, has put forward comparisons to the medieval practice of remembering the dead, having monks pray for their souls. Might this have been some crude recognition of the effect that fame (or infamy) has on a Hellion? Most don't really care - they'd rather get on with their lives (if that's the proper term). Some rare few actively try to awaken their memories, while others recognize that they might be in Hell for reasons darker than being a virtuous pagan and would rather the cobwebs in their brain stay tightly-woven. |
