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Orin phones Hal about Himself's suicide (p. 247)

quote

‘But you can see how it’s all going to get me thinking. How to avoid being forthright about the Stork material unless I know what the really forthright answers would be.’

Context

Hal rattles off the family's entire suppression index in one breath, and Orin states the call's paradoxical engine outright: to keep the memory buried he first has to dig it up. Suppression isn't a failure of memory but a project requiring accurate recall as raw material — you can't curate what you never retrieved.

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