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...actives show a tendency to occasionally go haywire. It turns out that human memory is like an analog cassette tape: overwrite it too many times, and you start to hear the ghosts of old voices. Actives are meant to be clean slates, with no messy human baggage. But as preamnesia Echo notes, "You ever try cleaning an actual slate? You can always see what was on it before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dollhouse: Who Does Joss Whedon Think He Is? | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...something to do with William Powell's rising from the oblivion of permanent amnesia to become a high-ranking French diplomat. And then there's an attempt to prove that in his preamnesia days he was a murderer and a rat who even double-crossed his partners in crime, and sometimes you get the idea that he really was this mythical other man, and all the time you hope it turns out that he was, just to see what the rules say about punishing Dr. Jekyll for something Mr. Hyde did. But either being thoroughly stumped or just plain having...

Author: By R. A., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

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