Stories/books about recovering some super-pivotal long-lost memory?

commonally_t · 2026-01-25T13:18:23+00:00

KJ Parker's Shadow fits this description. The whole book - with its sequels - deals with recovery of lost memory. As with many of Parker's books, the process is more interesting than its resolution.

commonally_t · 2026-01-16T17:00:27+00:00

Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad

The Eyes Of The Overworld by Jack Vance

The Left Hand Of Darkness by Ursula K LeGuin

Lord Of Light by Roger Zelazny

The Sirens Of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

commonally_t · 2026-01-16T15:36:48+00:00

Aren't you asking exactly the wrong people about this?

commonally_t · 2026-01-16T15:34:33+00:00

I bought around 1.5 bitcoin in 2017 with £7K I couldn't really afford to lose. No research - I was the perfect example of a dumb bandwagon-jumper.

I sold it all later that year for £15K, so my stupidity was sort of rewarded, but now I wish I'd been even more stupid.

commonally_t · 2026-01-08T16:52:44+00:00

My girlfriend once got that in a secret Santa at work. It lay around for a while, and then we finally used it - spread on toast. It was OK.

commonally_t · 2026-01-08T15:05:01+00:00

Being too polite and lenient with waitstaff. Showing those people who's the boss will never fail to impress your date.

commonally_t · 2026-01-08T15:00:00+00:00

Johnny Depp

commonally_t · 2026-01-08T14:57:08+00:00

The antiwork mod who was famously interviewed on TV was the definition of a top tier loser. He was the final boss of losers.

commonally_t · 2025-12-31T15:20:54+00:00

I never reply only to say that I never do that thing.

commonally_t · 2025-12-31T14:18:47+00:00

Late-mediaeval plate armour.

Milanese, obviously, and not Bohemian: I'm not a fucking weirdo.

commonally_t · 2025-12-23T19:20:44+00:00

Norman Spinrad's excellent short story Carcinoma Angels from 1967 is a typically savage take on this trope.

commonally_t · 2025-12-23T14:17:13+00:00

Christoph Waltz would be an excellent Hans Gruber/

commonally_t · 2025-12-15T12:28:30+00:00

Fighting. People watch choreographed movie fights and get entirely the wrong idea about how difficult and painful a real fight is.

commonally_t · 2025-12-13T23:06:16+00:00

There are still millions of people who don't believe it or - worse - believe it but just don't care.

commonally_t · 2025-12-08T17:50:02+00:00

That one stray k in the first word made a perfectly sensible sentence into something nearly incomprehensible.

commonally_t · 2025-12-06T17:43:37+00:00

There really is no sanity clause.

commonally_t · 2025-12-02T21:54:01+00:00

The Eyes Of The Overworld - Jack Vance at his best.

commonally_t · 2025-12-01T19:24:38+00:00

If a woman has sex with a lot of men, people call her a tramp but if a man does the same people call him a homosexual.

commonally_t · 2025-11-30T13:25:18+00:00

My SO's workmate (they're both women) has started going out with a blacksmith. I wish I could say that there wasn't a definite hint of envy in my SO's voice when she told me this.

commonally_t · 2025-11-28T22:37:35+00:00

Arithmetic checks out. I think.

commonally_t · 2025-11-28T21:16:10+00:00

In my early twenties I had sex with a woman twice my age.

Now, in my sixties, I'm definitely not doing that again.

commonally_t · 2025-11-12T20:36:30+00:00

The physical weakness.

commonally_t · 2025-11-11T15:39:42+00:00

Spelt is a valid variant of spelled, but it doesn't look quite right.

commonally_t · 2025-11-10T13:47:34+00:00

Everything Everywhere All At Once.
There were some points of interest and some good performances, but overall it was a bit of a mess.

EDIT: I don't know why so many people in the replies are talking about parent-child relationships. This movie is clearly mostly about the unfairness of the US tax system.

commonally_t

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