AllFreeNovel
Share Us
POLICE
So she lied?
JD
It’s not that simple. As I’m sure you know, memory is a very unreliable narrator, Detective. We all think memories are stored in our brains just as they are in computers. Once registered, the data are put away for safe-keeping and eventual recall. The facts don’t change. But the truth is, every time we remember something, we are reconstructing the event, reassembling it from traces throughout the brain. We also suppress memories that are painful or damaging to self-esteem. Our memories reshape themselves to accommodate the new situations we find ourselves facing. Memory is flexible.
POLICE
I’m not sure I follow.
JD
Put simply, Louise Roberts was so plausible because she believed everything she said. It’s how she remembered it actually happened. She’d have passed a lie-detector test, trust me.
