{(set: $sibling to "brother") (set: $sibling_pronounhs to "he", $sibling_pronounhsCAPS to "He", $sibling_pronounhh to "his", $sibling_pronounhh2 to "him") (set: $sibling_nature to "arsehole") (set: $status to "felt we were too poor.") (set: $memory_count to 0) (set: $memory1 to "empty") (set: $memory2 to "empty") (set: $memory3 to "empty")} =><= <span style="font-size:2em;">(text-style: "outline")[The Memory Archivist]</span> =><= <span style="font-size:0.75em;">[by Lynda Clark]</span> =><= <img src="images/title_image_transparent.png" alt="Ornate pattern" /> =><= [[About]] [[Begin]] <span style="font-size:0.5em;">(link: "Preserve Your Memories")[(open-url:'https://www.webarchive.org.uk/en/ukwa/info/nominate')]</span>This Twine story was created as part of an AHRC/M3C Innovation Placement at the (link-repeat: "British Library")[(open-url: 'https://www.bl.uk')] in relation to the (link: "Emerging Formats")[(open-url: 'https://www.bl.uk/projects/emerging-formats')] project. <span style="font-size:0.5em;">The cover image is taken from: //Inventaire des archives dauphinoises de M. Henry Morin-Pons. Rédigé et publiée par Ulysse Chevalier et André Lacroix. Dossiers généalogiques. A-C// by Henry Morin-Pons, p. 329 `(Lyon:1878)` Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 9225.k.5." Identifier: 002551263</span> <span style="font-size:0.5em;">The Border Terrier image is by Samuel Cockman and is used under a (link-repeat: "Creative Commons License")[(open-url: 'http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en')]</span> <span style="font-size:0.5em;">The photo of a fireplace and chimney is by (link-repeat: "Mahdis Mousavi on Unsplash")[(open-url:'https://unsplash.com/@dissii')]</span> <span style="font-size:0.5em;">'Cycling-Link select' function based on code from Jonathan Laury's (link-repeat:"Ostrich")[(open-url: 'https://borntopootle.itch.io/ostrich')], CSS style sheets adapted from (link-repeat:"Brevity Quest")[(open-url:'http://springthing.net/2017/play_online/BrevityQuest/brevity_quest.html')] by Chris Longhurst.</span> (if: (history:) contains "I board...")[[[Restart->Begin]]]Thank you for coming. {(click: "coming.")[We really appreciate everyone who shares their memories with us.] (click: "shares their memories with us")[ This is your first time, isn't it?] (click: "first time")[ Don't worry, it's very simple and completely painless.] } Please, [[take a seat.->seat]] This is Nurse Winstead. She'll be monitoring the procedure at all times. Sit back and relax. //[[(Close your eyes)->prerecording]]// //[[(Keep your eyes open)->prerecording]]//(if: $memory_count is >=3)[I'm afraid that's [[all we have time for today.->leave]]] (else:)[All right. (if: (history:) contains "explanation")[What was I saying? Ah yes…] Your readings all look good. Shall we begin?] (if: $memory_count is <3)[//I'd like to record something...//] (unless: (history:) contains "family")[ //[[...about my family->family]]//] (unless: (history:) contains "life")[//[[...about my daily life->life]]//] (unless: (history:) contains "unusual")[//[[... unusual->unusual]]//] //(unless: (history:) contains "prerecording")[[[...What do I do?->explanation]]]//In order to get a good recording of your memory, we need you to (link-reveal: "stay focussed.") [ Don't worry about digressions, that's where the good memories are, but try not to let random thoughts of your lunch (link-reveal: "intrude.") [ (although we do have clean-up tools that can help remove some of that noise).]] (click: "good memories")[Avoid falling (link-reveal:"asleep.") [ While there is some niche research interest in dream recordings, that's not [[our primary goal.->first timers]]]] (click: "dream recordings")[I'm the one who has to playback to check quality and some of those are (text-style:"shudder")[horrifying.]]Yes? //My <tw-link class='cyclingLink' data-cycling-texts='["brother", "sister"]' onclick='clickCyclingLink(this, "$sibling");'>$sibling</tw-link>...// (set: $memory_count to it +1) [[Go ahead.->sibling]]{(set: $memory_count to it +1)} Very well. What aspect exactly? {(click-append: "What aspect exactly?")[ Breakfasts are very popular.] (click-append: "Breakfasts are very popular.")[ I've always found dinners more exciting myself, but each to their own.]} //[[My morning commute.->Commute]]// //[[My dog.-> Dog]]//(set: $memory_count to it +1) We make no judgements here, although I’m legally obliged to remind you that all memory archives will be available to researchers via our viewing rooms. (click:" all")[ Unless they contain particularly sensitive data, of course.] //Not that kind of unusual.// (click: "Not that kind of unusual.")[ Oh, good!] (click: "Oh, good!")[ [[... No judgment.->judgment]]]Most first timers find it useful to speak the memory aloud, although of course that's not a requirement. (click: "requirement.")[It's also generally easier for beginners to focus on small, specific things.](click-append:"small, specific things.")[ A favourite moment with your first pet, or a shopping trip where you found the perfect brogue... Perhaps that’s just me, but you know what I mean.] See where that takes them. Getting straight into the big stuff can be too much.(click-append:"big stuff")[ (death of a loved one, an entire relationship...)] (click-append:"too much.")[ I completely understand why people want to, but...] That all [[sound ok?->recording]](if: $sibling is "sister")[(set: $sibling_pronounhs to "she", $sibling_pronounhsCAPS to "She", $sibling_pronounhh to "her", $sibling_pronounhh2 to "her")] //$sibling_pronounhsCAPS was a real <tw-link class='cyclingLink' data-cycling-texts='["arsehole", "sweetheart"]' onclick='clickCyclingLink(this, "$sibling_nature");'>$sibling_nature</tw-link> when [[we were kids.->kids]] ////(if: $sibling_nature is "arsehole")[Always [[taking my stuff...->arsehole]]] (elseif: $sibling_nature is "sweetheart")[Always [[looking out for me->sweetheart]] one way or another...]//(if: $memory1 is "empty")[(set: $memory1 to "arsehole")] (else-if: $memory2 is "empty")[(set: $memory2 to "arsehole")] (else-if: $memory3 is "empty")[(set: $memory3 to "arsehole")] $sibling_pronounhsCAPS is the youngest, which you think would have given me an advantage in our fights, when actually all it meant was $sibling_pronounhs was real crafty. (click: "crafty.")[ When I was about ten and $sibling_pronounhs was about five, I got given my first datapad.] (click: "datapad.")[ It was for school, so it wasn’t like it was a big deal, but $sibling_pronounhs was so [[jealous.]]]{(if: $memory1 is "empty")[(set: $memory1 to "sweetheart")] (else-if: $memory2 is "empty")[(set: $memory2 to "sweetheart")] (else-if: $memory3 is "empty")[(set: $memory3 to "sweetheart")]} We used to walk past this data vendor on the way to and from school. They had a sweets printer there and when I was good, Mum would give me spare tokens for sweets. My $sibling never got any because $sibling_pronounhs <tw-link class='cyclingLink' data-cycling-texts='["was too old for it.", "felt we were too poor."]' onclick='clickCyclingLink(this, "$status");'>$status</tw-link> $sibling_pronounhsCAPS had a part time job, but $sibling_pronounhs gave most of what $sibling_pronounhs earned to Mum. [[Anyway]]... one time it was really sunny and I was holding my token up to make it glint in the sun, (click: "holding my token up")[and it slipped straight out of my fingers and rolled along the road and off the kerb and down a storm outlet.] (click: "storm outlet")[(text-style: "blink")[//[[SPLOSH!]]//]]I just stared at my empty hand for a good few seconds, disbelieving. I got on my hands and knees at the side of the road and peered down into the echoing depths of the outlet (click: "echoing depths")[`(as if I'd be able to see anything!)`] (click: "outlet")[ ...and then the (text-style: "blur")[[[tears started->tears started]]]]At that age, there wasn’t much good stuff and a bag of freshly printed fudge on the way home from school was up there with the best. I was distraught to have that taken away. (click: "distraught")[Full on snot and [[screaming]].]And you know what $sibling_pronounhs did? (click: "did")[$sibling_pronounhsCAPS didn't say anything, just took some of $sibling_pronounhh own tokens and went in and came back out with a big bag of fudge.] (click: "fudge")[And $sibling_pronounhs didn't even want any, even though I offered.] (click: "offered")[Like I said, [[real sweetheart.->Memory End]]]Thanks, Nurse. (either: "Have you had your break yet?", "How many in the waiting room?", "Did Grayson send the latest satellite uplink co-ordinates yet?") (if: $memory_count is 1)[//Is that it? Am I done?//] {(elseif: $memory_count is 3)[//[[It's time I was going->leave]]//] (else:)[//I'm still here.//]} {(click: "Am I done?")[ Oh, sorry. We're just run off our feet here, I'm sure you can imagine. It's really up to you. There's still time left in your session if you want to use it?]} (click-append: "use it?")[ //[[Yes, please.->recording]]// //[[No, thank you. ->leave]]//] (click: "still here.")[ Apologies. So many memories to be recorded, so little time.] (click: "so little time.")[ Literally! Although you still have a little time left. Did you want to use it?]I could see it in $sibling_pronounhh face when I unboxed it. (click: "unboxed")[ In front of mum and dad, $sibling_pronounhs made out like $sibling_pronounhs was [[happy]] for me.] "Isn't that nice?" $sibling_pronounhs kept saying, beaming. "Isn't it good?" (click: "beaming")[Literally the second our parents left the room, $sibling_pronounhs snatched it out of my hands, scowling, and said: "Why do I never get ANYTHING!"] (click: "ANYTHING!")[And I wanted to remind $sibling_pronounhh2 that on my birthday only a few weeks prior, $sibling_pronounhs had got the last pink wafer,](click: "pink wafer")[and the biggest slice of cake,](click: "slice of cake")[and even got to (text-style: "blur")[blow out] the candles](click: "candles")[ because $sibling_pronounhs was such a [[brat]].] But before I could say any of that, $sibling_pronounhs had brought the brand new shiny datapad(click: "shiny")[` (that I'd never even had a chance to turn on)`](click: "datapad")[ and slammed it down on $sibling_pronounhh knee with a (text-style: "rumble")[[[CRACK!->CRACK!]]]]It was sturdier than $sibling_pronounhs expected, and it hurt $sibling_pronounhh2, which was some small consolation, although it did mean mum and dad were too busy attending to $sibling_pronounhh wailing to pay much attention to what $sibling_pronounhs had done to my datapad. (click: "my datapad")[It had a crazed pattern in one corner like an eggshell tapped with a teaspoon, and that bit of the screen was all rainbows for ever after.] (click: "for ever after.")[[[What an arsehole.->Memory End]]](if: $memory1 is "empty")[(set: $memory1 to "commute")] (else-if: $memory2 is "empty")[(set: $memory2 to "commute")] (else-if: $memory3 is "empty")[(set: $memory3 to "commute")] //Is that okay? Not too boring?// (click: "Not too boring?")[Everything's interesting to someone.] (click: "Everything's interesting to someone.")[Whenever you're [[ready]].](if: $memory1 is "empty")[(set: $memory1 to "dog")] (else-if: $memory2 is "empty")[(set: $memory2 to "dog")] (else-if: $memory3 is "empty")[(set: $memory3 to "dog")] She's a Border Terrier with eyes full of mischief. (click: "full of mischief.")[ When I first met her, she fit in the palm of my hand.] (click: "fit in the palm of my hand.")[ The cloner said she was top of the line,] (click: "top of the line")[ but she could have been a mutated dud] (click: "mutated dud")[ - by that point it was too late] (click: "too late")[ - I was in(text-style: "shudder")[[[ love.->love.]]]]I get the metro every day. When I was little, the tracks used to make this terrifying screeching noise. It’s all maglev now, and yet that low-level shushing is just as disconcerting, somehow. (click: "disconcerting")[Maybe it’s because being trapped in a metal tube hurtling along under the earth at incredible speeds is never not frightening.] (click: "trapped in a metal tube")[Anyway, I always [[shut my eyes]] on the metro.]All the ads flashing past the windows give me motion sickness otherwise. (click: "otherwise.")[But recently, I started keeping them open.] (click: "I started keeping them open.")[And you know what?] (click: "what?")[Everyone else shuts their eyes,] (click-append: "shuts their eyes,")[ and I can just watch them with the ads flashing across their faces] (click-append: "flashing across their faces")[ like the light through a stained glass window in one of the old churches] (click-append: "old churches")[ and it’s just [[beautiful.->Memory End]]]When she was little, she was a real fussy eater. (click: "fussy eater")[I’d make her tiny dishes of scrambled egg and shredded chicken.] (click: "scrambled egg and shredded chicken.")[[[She wouldn't eat anything else.->pigeon]]]Last week, she tried to bite the head off a sun-damaged pigeon. (click: "sun-damaged pigeon")[[[That's my girl.->Memory End]]](if: $memory1 is "empty")[(set: $memory1 to "haunted")] (else-if: $memory2 is "empty")[(set: $memory2 to "haunted")] (else-if: $memory3 is "empty")[(set: $memory3 to "haunted")] My aunt's house is old, so it would look creepy even if nothing bad had happened there. (click-append: "old,")[ 1970s, ] (click: "nothing bad had happened")[But [[something bad]] did happen.]It’s the only reason she got the place – the estate agent was practically giving it away... (click-append:"giving it away")[ because the guy who owned it went homicidal on his family in a big way.] (click: "big way")[There was a spate of them when the announcement first went out on the news, I’m sure you remember.] (click: "announcement")[I bet you’ve got lots of recordings about people’s reaction to //that//, huh?] [[Anyway...->anyway]]They found one of the kids stuffed up the… what are they called? [[One of these.->chimney]] Wife in the kitchen with a knife in her neck, it was a whole thing. (click:"thing")[ Anyway, a year on, estate agent can't shift the house, along comes my aunt, [[job's a good 'un.->weird]]]<img src="images/mahdis-mousavi-1165297-unsplash.jpg" alt="chimney" height=2160 width=1440"/> [[Chimney?->anyway]]The weird things start happening almost immediately. {(click: "weird things")[(either: "My aunt tries to paint the kitchen white, leaves her first coat to dry and when she comes back it's red again. I tell her red's hard to cover, maybe the walls are porous `(who knows what they built houses out of back then?)`, maybe she didn't put as good a coat on as she thought `(she has a habit of skimping)`. But three, four, five coats later, it's always back to red by morning.", "She closes the curtains in the upstairs back bedroom, and every time she comes back in there, they're open. I tell her maybe she's just getting forgetful in her old age, even though I know that doesn't really happen any more.", "Shoes disappear from the hallway, turn up in the cupboard under the stairs.")]} And it gets [[weirder.]] Initially I thought maybe my aunt was just doing it to mess with me, to freak me out? (click: "freak me out?")[ But I stopped over a few times when she wasn’t even there, and it still happened.] (click: "still happened.")[ So… I dunno. Are you [[allowed]] to archive that?] (if: (history:) contains "allowed")[It's like I said before -] We can archive whatever you give us permission to archive. {(click: "whatever")[ It's not for us to judge the value of submissions.] (click:"value of submissions")[ That's for future civilizations to decide.] (click:"future")[ Assuming there //is// a future, or course.]} {(if: (history:) contains "carpet.")[Don't look so worried - the [[recording's complete!->Memory End]]]} (else:)[We have all your consent forms, so we're [[ready ->prerecording]] when you are.]Knives taken out of drawers and laid meaningfully on worktops. (click: "worktops.")[ Children crying in the night, despite every person in the neighbourhood being well into their sixties.] (click: "sixties.")[ Dirty child-sized footprints on every [[carpet.]]]Would you like to playback your memories before you leave? //[[Oh, ok.->playback]]// //[[No, I'm good thanks.->goodbye]]//(if: $memory_count >=2)[Which memory would you like to play back?] //I'd like to see what I told you about my// {//(if: $memory1 is "sweetheart" or $memory2 is "sweetheart" or $memory3 is "sweetheart")[ [[$sibling.->siblingpb]]]// //(if: $memory1 is "arsehole" or $memory2 is "arsehole" or $memory3 is "arsehole")[ [[$sibling.->siblingpb]]]// //(if: $memory1 is "dog" or $memory2 is "dog" or $memory3 is "dog")[ [[dog.]]]// //(if: $memory1 is "commute" or $memory2 is "commute" or $memory3 is "commute")[ [[commute.]]]// //(if: $memory1 is "haunted" or $memory2 is "haunted" or $memory3 is "haunted")[ [[aunt's house.]]]//}//I walk past the long queues in the waiting room and back out to the maglev station. As I wait for the train, I think about {(if: $memory1 is "sweetheart" or "arsehole")[my $sibling and what a $sibling_nature $sibling_pronounhs was.] (else-if: $memory1 is "doggo")[my dog and how I miss her.] (else-if: $memory1 is "commute")[how I'm about to take a journey just like the one I shared, one I must have made a hundred times or more now.] (else-if: $memory1 is "haunted")[my aunt and wonder if one day she'll haunt her house too.]} And I think about {(if: $memory2 is "sweetheart" or "arsehole")[my $sibling_nature of a $sibling and how I miss $sibling_pronounhh2.] (else-if: $memory2 is "doggo")[how I could have gotten another dog, but for some reason I didn't, and it might be too late now.] (else-if: $memory2 is "commute")[how soon I'll be sharing a maglev compartment with all my fellow eyes-closed travellers.] (else-if: $memory2 is "haunted")[my aunt and her ghosts.] (else:)[all the other mundane things I've taken for granted over the years.]} And {(if: $memory3 is "sweetheart" or "arsehole")[how I'd give anything to see my $sibling_nature $sibling one last time.] (else-if: $memory3 is "doggo")[how my dog used to wag her tail whenever I said she was a good girl, even if I whispered it, and how I'd missed that off the memory, how could I miss that off the memory?] (else-if: $memory3 is "commute")[how my fellow maglev passengers could have recorded their memories about me too, and I'd probably never know it.] (else-if: $memory3 is "haunted")[how I missed off the fact my aunt got used to it, and I worry I misrepresented her, or me, or the house and its ghosts.] (else:) [how these things seem so tiny, so mundane, so boring, in some ways, yet they're so vital, so utterly the fabric of everything.]} And as the maglev arrives, and [[I board...]]//(if: $sibling_nature is "sweetheart")[We used to walk past this data vendor on the way to and from school. They had a sweets printer there and when I was good, Mum would give me spare tokens for sweets. One time it was really sunny and I was holding my token up to make it glint in the sun, and it slipped straight out of my fingers and rolled along the road and off the kerb and down a storm outlet. And you know what my $sibling did? $sibling_pronounhs didn't say anything, just took some of $sibling_pronounhh own tokens and went in and came back out with a big bag of fudge.] (if: $sibling_nature is "arsehole")[When I was about ten and $sibling_pronounhs was about five, I got given my first datapad. It was for school, so it wasn't like it was a big deal, but $sibling_pronounhs was so jealous. "Isn't that nice?" $sibling_pronounhs kept saying, beaming. "Isn't it good?" Literally the second our parents left the room, $sibling_pronounhs snatched it out of my hands, scowling, and said: "Why do I never get ANYTHING!" And I wanted to remind $sibling_pronounhh2 that on my birthday only a few weeks prior, $sibling_pronounhs had got the last pink wafer, and the biggest slice of cake, and even got to blow out the candles because $sibling_pronounhs was such a brat. ut before I could say any of that, $sibling_pronounhs had brought the brand new shiny datapad and slammed it down on $sibling_pronounhh knee. Mum and dad were too busy attending to ] [[End playback.->respond]]She's a Border Terrier with eyes full of mischief. When I first met her, she fit in the palm of my hand. The cloner said she was top of the line, but she could have been a mutated dud – by that point it was too late – I was in love. When she was little, she was a real fussy eater. I’d make her tiny dishes of scrambled egg and shredded chicken. She wouldn’t eat anything else. Last week, she tried to bite the head off a sun-damaged pigeon. That's my girl. [[End playback.->respond]]I get the metro every day. When I was little, the tracks used to make this terrifying screeching noise. It’s all maglev now, and yet that low-level shushing is just as disconcerting, somehow. (click: "disconcerting")[Maybe it’s because being trapped in a metal tube hurtling along under the earth at incredible speeds is never not frightening.] (click: "trapped in a metal tube")[Anyway, I always shut my eyes on the metro.] (click: "shut my eyes")[All the ads flashing past the windows give me motion sickness otherwise.] (click: "otherwise.")[But recently, I started keeping them open.] (click: "I started keeping them open.")[And you know what?] (click: "what?")[Everyone else shuts their eyes,] (click-append: "shuts their eyes,")[ and I can just watch them with the ads flashing across their faces] (click-append: "flashing across their faces")[ like the light through a stained glass window in one of the old churches] (click-append: "old churches")[ and it's just [[beautiful.->end playback]]]My aunt's house is old, so it would look creepy even if nothing bad had happened there. But something bad did happen. It's the only reason she got the place – the estate agent was practically giving it away, because the guy who owned it went homicidal on his family in a big way. Wife in the kitchen with a knife in her neck, it was a whole thing. Anyway, a year on, estate agent can't shift the house, along comes my aunt, job's a good 'un. The weird things start happening almost immediately. Knives taken out of drawers and laid meaningfully on worktops. Children crying in the night, despite every person in the neighbourhood being well into their sixties. Dirty child-sized footprints on every carpet. Initially I thought maybe my aunt was just doing it to mess with me, to freak me out? But I stopped over a few times when she wasn’t even there, and it still happened. So… I dunno. [[End playback.->respond]]//(if: (history:) contains "commute.")[That seemed to work [[pretty well.]]]// //(if: (history:) contains "aunt's house." or "dog." or "siblingpb")[It seems like [[some of it was missing?]]]// //(if: (history:) contains "aunt's house." or "dog." or "$siblingpb")[It's [[not really how I remembered it...->not how I remembered]]]//[[End playback.->respond]](if: $memory_count >=2)[Would you like to view another memory? //[[Yes, please.->playback]]// //[[No, thank you.->goodbye]]// ] //(else:)[ Thank you. [[I should be going.->goodbye]]]//Ah, yes. {(click: "yes.")[ Don't worry about that.] (click: "that.")[ It's just because this isn't the true playback environment.] (click: "playback environment")[ Our technicians are still working on solutions, but they're confident it will be fully replayable by the final iteration.]} //(click: "final iteration.")[ Will I get to see it looking like that?]// (click: "get to see it")[ It's a possibility.] //(click: "possibility")[ Who can ask for more than that?]// (click: "more than that?")[Exactly.] (if: $memory_count >=2)[Would you like to view another memory? //[[Yes, please.->playback]]// //[[No, thank you.->goodbye]]// ] //(else:)[ Thank you. [[I should be going.->goodbye]]]// Ah, yes, I should have said that at the beginning. (click: "at the beginning")[We get a lot of regulars these days, and they tire of hearing the full spiel, so I tend to abridge it.] (click: "full spiel,")[ You see the thing is, we're trying to preserve the whole of civilization's memory. For after-] (click-replace: "For after-")[That's a massive amount of data.] (click-replace: "a massive amount")[petabytes...] (click: "data.")[ Almost incomprehensible.] (click: "incomprehensible.")[ But it can never actually be everything.] (click-append: "everything.")[ Those who don't hear about the program in time, or feel like they have nothing of value to record, their memories will be lost.] (click: "Almost")[So the fidelity isn't always maintained as much as we might like, I'm afraid.] //(click: "fidelity isn't always maintained")[ [[I see.]]]//I'm sorry to be the bearer of disappointing news. But what you're doing, well, I think it's brave. //(click: "brave.")[ Brave?]// (click: "Brave?")[ Giving a piece of yourself to the future.] (click: "future.")[ Whatever that might mean.] (click-replace: "Whatever that might mean.")[ I think it's a brave thing to do.] //(click: "brave thing to do.")[ Oh.]// //(click: "Oh.")[ I hadn't thought of it like that.]// //(click: "like that.")[ Thanks.]// //(click: "Thanks.")[ I suppose this is the last time-]// (click-replace: "I suppose this is the last time-")[Probably.] (if: $memory_count >=2)[Would you like to view another memory? //[[Yes, please.->playback]]// //[[No, thank you.->goodbye]]// ] //(else:)[ Thank you. [[I should be going.->goodbye]]]// //... I think about the researchers who might look at my memories a hundred, a thousand years from now. (click: "a thousand years from now.")[ They might be exactly like me.] (click: "exactly like me.")[ Or they might be totally different.] (click: "totally different.")[ And the world they live in might be worse.] (click: "worse.")[But it might be much improved.] (click: "improved.")[ And whatever it's like, they'll see my memories.] (click: "my memories.")[ And they'll know me, even if only a little bit.] (click: "little bit.")[For the first time in a long time, I feel better.]// (click: "feel better.")[[[The End.->About]]] {(unless: (history:) contains "prerecording")[What you archive is entirely up to you and you can stop at any time.]} {(unless: (history:) contains "prerecording")[Any questions?]} (else:)[Anything else?] //[[What kind of things can I record?->allowed]]// //[[How does all of this work?->technology]]// //[[No, I'm good thanks.->recording]]// I won't pretend to fully understand the technology - I leave that up to our technicians. {(click: "technology")[ To some degree it's dependent on how the Rememberer's memories are structured.]} {(click: "structured.")[ However good the technology is, an atypical recall method can throw everything off.]} //[[I'd like to know more.->explanation]]// //[[All right, let's get started.->recording]]//