Originally Posted by
JimmyHAD
Funny about memory and that sort of thing. As a kid, reading The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes early on, I was impressed by a part where Watson is amazed that Holmes could be so conversant in esoteric, arcane facts, yet so totally clueless when it came to common knowledge the average person took for granted.
When Watson asked him about the seeming contradiction Holmes explained that there is only finite space for the memory to store knowledge and he immediately culls any useless knowledge from his mind, to have ready access to what would further his crusade against crime.
So having read that, and being greatly impressed with it, I've tried to do that in my own head. On another note, when I first got out of the union hall to my first ironwork job at 19 years old, I thought that I would remember every job I ever went on. Wasn't long before I couldn't remember one from another except for the big long term jobs. Memory, it's like "Rosebud" if you know what I mean, and just in case you don't ....... :)