He is reliant on videos…but they might as well be actors on a screen playing on scenes of his life. Whether the author meant this or not, Gui’s plight in this world could be synonymous to dementia or Alzheimer’s. Are we really human if we forget our past? What happens when everything becomes a dream? In a world where recalling memories from objects is commonplace, and someone like Gui (who’s memory is similar to most people in the real world) is unusual, it brings about questions of personal humanity. Just those mere questions lure me into stories like this. What if that memento caries the memories of your dead grandmother? Are stories really forgotten? It’s a part of the human condition, I suppose, to be interested in these types of things. I have always been fond of stories that have to do with memories and how they attach themselves to items and people. Perhaps not everything should be forgotten after all. But upon meeting Gui, and learning he can hardly remember anything, as well as an encounter with her sister that sparks memories deep in her past, Clara wonders if she is doing the right thing. Clara wants to forget, and thus ventures to visit Gui, a young man who runs a “cleaning shop” that wipes away memory residue. That is the case with two sisters, Clara and Beatrice, who have a hypersensitivity to memories greater than most others. Imagine if you could detect memories in everyday objects.
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