"Yeah, no problem." Heiji sat back and dug a spoon into the gruel, boy oh boy. "...Hey, Hershel. Do you think we might be thinking about this all wrong? Our situation, I mean."
"Taking away someone's memories and bringing them back, that's one thing. It's possible in theory because you don't really erase them... you prevent that person from being able to access those memories for a while, that's all. But giving me someone else's memory, that's something else altogether. It's not like I could have gotten it back, because it didn't happen to me in the first place, understand?
"The ability to take someone's memories, store them, and give them to someone else... that's something no one can do. No one I've heard of, anyway. It's the same with Calhoun -- why didn't we recognize the machinery making him work?"
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"Taking away someone's memories and bringing them back, that's one thing. It's possible in theory because you don't really erase them... you prevent that person from being able to access those memories for a while, that's all. But giving me someone else's memory, that's something else altogether. It's not like I could have gotten it back, because it didn't happen to me in the first place, understand?
"The ability to take someone's memories, store them, and give them to someone else... that's something no one can do. No one I've heard of, anyway. It's the same with Calhoun -- why didn't we recognize the machinery making him work?"