Amnesiac
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Past Observations:
- Chaotic, disconnected.
- No memory, but well grounded, comfortable with the conditions because they are used to it, like a blind person with the lights off.
Past Observations:
- Chaotic, disconnected.
- No memory, but well grounded, comfortable with the conditions because they are used to it, like a blind person with the lights off.
posted by Dustin at 1:05 p.m.
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What happens when Buddy and Amnesiac find eachother?
- Time means differently once you can't remember the past or future.
- Amnesiac is always in this space, OR
- There is an accident and Amnesiac becomes an Amnesiac after his last letter to Buddy.
- There is a Strong Story here.
The Amnesiac is a person who has lost quite a bit of memory, but it's actually still there. It's there, but the Amnesiac has lost grasp of it.
The Amnesiac's memory seems to worsen after awhile, but he/she's not overly worried, as if it's a normal progression.
Also, it seems to worsen even more after a point in time, not even remembering what he/she said just 1 line earlier.
The Amnesiac is rather intelligent and wise, just suffering a little in the memory faculty.
Thoughtful, very concerned with keeping a good face, fair, a little impulsive. Honest too.
Amnesiac's loss of memory is of traumatic origin. We think he wrote the letter Seeker read to Buddy. He and Buddy were together. They have split. Buddy has reacted by sometimes being pissed, but Amnesiac is fragmented by the experience. That he falls asleep telling stories suggests that his full title might be Narcoleptic Amnesiac. There's not a lot to relate one experience to the next from such a position. Having no memory of a past, he is perpetually in the present. This is what puts him in the place the play occurs.
I think Am's recurrence of memory might sometimes serves as a place of more literal translation of what's going on in the play. As memory recurrs for him, he becomes a different kind of person. As he becomes a different kind of person, he and others begin to understand their position. He is the most "present" in the current context--all were in some way "present" to end up in the place they do at all. That is their crime. But their presencing was in the past. Amensiac cannot but be in this moment now, as the play starts.
So, as he changes with a return of some memories, his personhood moves from vagueness to something crisper. Resisting a purely linear psychodramtic solution, nonetheless his recollection of his past allows him to come from nothing but sensations to fuller self realization, and his process of doing so, being the more evident, more literally mimics a collective process.
What he has just written is less a play and more an explanation. But he can be forgiven this because--though he can't remember it--he is just about to fly to vangroovey.
Notes from Last Session:
- Botched Lobotomy learning with left and right.
- Tracing drawings despite memory loss having him never remember about what he learned.
- Retrograde Amnesia
- Anterograde amnesia.
this scene on page 5 of the polywog.
this lovey dovey scene of the walk in the park merges with Buddy's monologue.
We hear the voice of Buddy off stage, but A is present and talking as b does her mono.
biddy: walking. feeling dirt. sun warmed dirt.
amnesiac: my turn. wet leaves. soft moss. smell of wet cedar bark.
b. fragrant wild rose after rain
a. Stop. no floweryness, literally or figuratively. My turn. More dirt. This time between toes. The feeling on the backs of my eyes as the sun flickers.
b. that's flowery too.
a no it's not. it's exactly like that. That's one of my favourite things in the park domain.
b. well, how about this. your wet lips.
[avert eyes, dear listeners]
a. Yeah, that's alright.
b. Alright? How about this?
a. not bad. What do you think of this?
b. s'alright.
a:come on, let's get out of here;it's really pouring.
b: I wanna stay. It's been so wonderful today.
a: you can't keep it. It was there, now it's gone. Let's go.
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