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Hal supine: Accomplice!, the blizzard, Weston (pp. 950–951)

quote

My memories of Weston seemed like tableaux. They seemed more like snapshots than films. […] Some of the memories have to be confabulated or dreamed—the Moms would never have had a divan with burns in it.

Context

Hal audits the form his memories take: stills, not footage — this from the filmmaker's son, in a scene that opens with one of Himself's cartridges playing. Then the second shoe: he catches his own memory confabulating, flagging a detail as impossible on internal evidence. A first-person narrator telling you outright that some of what he's just shown you is invented.

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