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...his memory is a clothesline and the images of his past dirty linen redeemed and the infallibly complacent servants of his reminiscential needs. Memory is obviously conditioned by perception. Curiosity is
a non-conditioned reflex...it is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is not stained by this animal
element. Curiosity is the safeguard, not the death, of the cat,