"The Memories of the Dead"

#0156. We dislike reminders of our mortality but dislike the prospect of forgetting our fellow mortals even more. Our memorials are to keep the subject in our thoughts, because our brains are constructed to expunge the knowledge that we will end. The secret place is encircled by countless memorials. Each life lives again there, but wholly unaware. I asked Alice if the dead have memories. She did not answer. She never ever answers.