You begin to receive emails with long, seemingly meaningless, sequences of letters and numbers. A code, it seems, perhaps a message, but you can’t find anything in these sequences that have meaning – they seem to be random, just noise. But then, you’re no statistician or code-breaker, so maybe they do mean something. Why are you receiving them? You don’t know. After two weeks the emails stop coming. That afternoon, visitors arrive at your home, knock politely. Calmly, they apologize for … [Read more...]
“‘But I didn’t…'” / Memorable Fancies #1681
21 November, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Our secrets are everywhere in the cloud, shuffled from one server farm to another, replicated piece by piece in a thousand places, ready to come together on a microsecond’s notice, ready to shame us with remembrance – despite our desperate forgetting. [Click ‘Random Post’ above – be astonished] … [Read more...]
“The Secret-Keepers” / A Memorable Fancy #359
1 June, 2013 by 4 Comments
The trade of secret-keeper is honored. Although the price can be high, we go to these people and tell them our special secret, the one we can’t trust ourselves to keep. The secret-keepers swear never to forget, so that we can forget. At the secret-keepers’ convention, they tell each other what we should have known all along: everyone has the same secret. <END> Subscriptions to A Memorable Fancy are now available on Amazon. … [Read more...]
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